A Black British Girl's Perspective of a Global Village
This is a comment I left on The African or Black Question TAOBQ blog; ´Highlighting Brazil's Complex African Identity And Race Issues` Thank you for referencing my post ´a lighter shade of black...` I´d like to give my opinion on a point made ´But what's up with the Brazilian love for the word "Afro", which... Continue Reading →
I recently booked my ticket to Salvador, Bahia! I'm so excited to get on with my Tabom Afro-Brazilian research and be in town for carnival! As I stood at the Avianca airport ticket desk waiting for my São Paulo- Salvador- Rio, tickets to be printed my eyes caught the front cover of their latest magazine.... Continue Reading →
My honeymoon period is officially over! It's time to get some work done and that's exactly what I set off to do today in the heat of Rio's scorching sun. My brother from another mother Tuni from Serra Leone, took a break from working in his barber shop on Rua Vinte de Abril, to accompany... Continue Reading →
I would like to think I started this project at an early age due to curiosity when my dad mentioned I had brazilian ancestry. Technically I started researching my Afro-Brazilian history just 2 years ago, in 2010. However, I've done a significant amount, enough to trace my ancestry 6 generations back to Salvador, Bahia. I... Continue Reading →
Travelmaker Kai 