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There must be really many immigrants from Nigeria. The main typical food of Bahia (Acarajé) is actually nothing else but Nigerian MeiMei.
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Salvador de Bahia was the main port the Africn slaves were shipped to for 400 years till slavery was abolished in 1888, whereafter many African Craftspeople made the journey seeking work. At least one of the syncretic religions (Candomblé – very popular with people from many ethnic groups) uses a litany in partially in medieval Yoruba…
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I have just googled Candomblé and read the article in Wikipedia. Very interesting. Of course there was nothing about Brazilian history in our schoolbooks. I wonder why. We did learn about the spirit dance, the religion that developed among north American Indians during the 19th century, but nothing about Latin America, nor on Africa. We learned about the Huns and the Mongols, because they conquered parts of Europe. We never learned at school that there had been large empires in the so called black Africa, maybe we vaguely heard about the Queen of Sheba, that was it. 30 years ago, when I still lived in Hamburg, reports from any country in Africa would always show the homelands with mud huts and women stomping some food with long wooden tools in big wooden containers. If footage of cities was shown, it was about the poor areas, e.g. reports from South Africa would always show the townships like Soweto. It made my Nigerian friends furious, understandably so.
My fiancé was from Bini, as he called it, speaking Edo, so that must be what is officially called Benin State. He was very proud of their history.
So, I learned a lot today, thank you!
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True, Africa and it’s contribution to World history is often understated or ignored…
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