Visit the city of Salvador a vibrant repository of African influence in Brazil. African-Brazilians provided Brazil with internationally renowned cultural symbols: samba and carnival. The center of ...

In Brazil it used to be just another month. Not any more: since last year Brazilians have turned it into “Black Consciousness ...

“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

Away from COP30's official talks, African activists in Belem, Brazil, joined the People's Summit to expose climate injustices and push for reparations. DW spoke to some of the people leading this ...

From leading the charge to include the African Union in the G20 to championing debt relief, Brazil, under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s guidance, promises solidarity and prosperity for all.

BELEM, BrazilBELEM, Brazil — The bodies of nine migrants found on an African boat off the northern coast of Brazil’s Amazon region were buried Thursday with a solemn ceremony in the Para state capital ...

For a century, more than 519 sacred objects from the Umbanda and Candomblé—two religions with African origins—were in the possession of Brazil police. This possession and the fight to return these ...

Afro-Brazilians find strength in the nearly 6,000 communities established by ancestors who escaped slavery. A service in Salvador brings out a range of reactions at the 18th-century Church of Our Lady ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...

(AP) Wearing full-skirted white dresses and turbans, the religious leaders chanted blessings and sprinkled water on the concrete floor of a modest house near this city’s port. Beneath their feet were ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's perfect record against African teams at the World Cup suggests that Monday's Group A match against a demoralized, discredited Cameroon should be little more than a stroll ...

South African mining explosives and chemicals company AECI Mining is currently undertaking an expansion project in two strategically significant mining states in Brazil, with an anticipated completion ...