Africa: How a School Project in the Amazon Is Tracing Afro-Brazilian Ancestry Back to Africa’s Great Empires
In Alcântara, a quilombola territory in Brazil’s Amazon, students are using DNA tests, historical research and oral memory to uncover ancestral connections to West Africa and reclaim histories erased by slavery and colonialism. In the Brazilian Amazon, a school project set out to investigate a question that had long been difficult to answer: where in…