The new Brazilian head of state and his government itself has managed to push through a progressive new policy that we sincerely welcome.

It has introduced the compulsory study of African History and Yoruba Language into the primary and secondary schools curriculum.

The West African language Yoruba is spoken by around 30 million Africans and with Brazil’s HUGE population this could be a massive boost to the language and culture.

The Brazilian Minister of Culture, Dr Sérgio Sá leitão, while speaking at the Institute of African Studies, University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil paraded important dignitaries including Nigerian artists and historians, as well as professors of arts and African studies at a lecture on the importance of Yoruba language in the Brazilian culture and tradition.

According to him, the inclusion of African History and Yoruba Language in the curriculum would help bring the African Brazilian people close to their roots, and thus encourage the understandings of the language among other important languages in Brazil apart from Portuguese which is the official language.

The Minister highlighted the role played by Brazil during the festival of arts and culture, ‘FESTAC 77’, held in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977; the constant intercultural programmes between Nigeria and Brazil; the annual carnival of arts, music and cultural displays featuring prominent African artists and Yoruba writers such as Yinka Shonibare, Adeyinka Olaiya, El Anatsui among many others, including the highly respected Yoruba writer, Professor Wande Abimbola.

The 2018 Him Imperial Majesty Kábíyèsí Babatunde Enitan Ogunwusi, the Ọọni ile-ife Official trip to Brazil is bearing many fruits already.




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Yoruba Amaka



But this your source na wa ooo

Lemme google first.

This is all part of a bigger picture.

The global world is broken and needs fixing. The only thing on our planet that can come close enough to finding a cure for the entire global world’s problems is the spirituality according to an African.

That is to say, the narative has changed. There’s need for us to stop looking outwards for nothingingness. All the answers of the world’s problems are in our dormain one way or the other.

You and I are the answer, collectively, it is our kind and territory that holds all the answers to the worlds problems.

There is no people(s) outside of Africa (Diaspora) that really wishes Africans any good, all they are really after are our minerals.

The best thing about our Great continent is widely considered her trickiest among her many great qualities; natural resources.

Our Great continent is the oldest and as a result, the richest on the planet.

Let’s re-write history for the sake of the coming generation. The ones we keep passing-the-buck to, they are going to need a good start, or a concept to develop.

Here’s is what’s proposed:

The African Dream.

What is the African dream?

The African dream is the narrative that stands on the assumption that the rest of the world is crazed with lust for materialistic things and has neglected what really matters, our relationship with (the African) God(s).

Furthermore, it’s us Africans that will eventually have to come to the rescue of the rest of the world.

In this scenario, all organised religions operating in the African continent will eventually lose out to this new way of thinking. A pan - African progressive narrate that anywhere in the world Africans can relate to, work towards and rally around.


The African Dream

Most Brazilians have more African in them than the present day Egyptians.

Hausa, Ibo and Youruba should replace English as the official written languages of Nigeria.

Hopefully, Yoruba will soon be official language across the Americas

Fake news again. Black brazilians only speak portuguese.

Yesterday, reports circulated in Nigerian media that Brazil had adopted Yoruba as an official foreign language. We reported on it suggesting it was accurate (see below), but with more digging we've found that the story doesn't quite add up. As we probed further and searched the news for supplemental content, we received confirmation from Rafael Baldo Guimaraes, from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture that the story is "fake news." According to Brazil's Minister of Culture, Dr. Sérgio Sá Leitão's, schedule, he was not in attendance at the seminar mentioned in Nigerian news sites such as The Nigerian Voice and The Poise Nigeria, which appeared to show photographs from the event. We will continue to keep you updated on the story as we learn more. You can read on for the original story.
https://www.okayafrica.com/brazil-has-not-made-yoruba-an-official-language/

Correct bjnorl, Yoruba is instead recognised as ‘patrimonio imaterial’ - meaning that the language is being given a landmark status; recognition of great importance to the people of Brazil.

It’s really up to Yoruba in Brazil to take further steps to attain official language status.

Although, Nigeria ought to take the lead.

Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba should replace English as the nation’s official languages.

Amujale:


It’s really up to Yoruba in Brazil to take further steps to attain official language status.

" WTF?? Brazil is not a African country. Brazil is home to quite a diversity of racial and ethnic groups. White, Asian, Black, Arab, japanese etc

bjnorl:
" WTF?? Brazil is not a African country. Brazil is home to quite a diversity of racial and ethnic groups. White, Asian, Black, Arab, japanese etc

Yet you to show a lack of understanding the deep connection much of the population of Brazil have with our great continent.

During the crusades and Trans- Atlantic campaigns many end up in different parts of the Globe; Brazil bring a typical example.

Therefore, it is all part of the African narative. Know thy self; be one with the African God(s).


The African Dream!

Be apart of the African narative; a generational change of thinking; Let us re-instate the glory days of African positive influence on the rest of the world.


The time has come to put and end to the false narrative of doom and gloom.

Now we look into the distant with great anticipation that one day Africans will launch a consented effort to restore Africa’s glory days.

I hope there is no one reading these text with a dollop of doubt.

It’s inevitable that a generation of Africans will solve all our worries; unite all of Africa towards a common goal, but many people, including me, prefer that generation to be theirs.

Amujale:


Yet you to show a lack of understanding the deep connection much of the population of Brazil have with our great continent.

During the crusades and Trans- Atlantic campaigns many end up in different parts of the Globe; Brazil bring a typical example.

Therefore, it is all part of the African narative. Know thy self; be one with the African God(s).


The African Dream!

Be apart of the African narative; a generational change of thinking; Let us re-instate the glory days of African positive influence on the rest of the world.


The time has come to put and end to the false narrative of doom and gloom.

Now we look into the distant with great anticipation that one day Africans will launch a consented effort to restore Africa’s glory days.

I hope there is no one reading these text with a dollop of doubt.

It’s inevitable that a generation of Africans will solve all our worries; unite all of Africa towards a common goal, but many people, including me, prefer that generation to be theirs.

African influence in Brazil is highly exaggerated. Many times specially abroad is exaggerated, either to make us exotic or used for political reasons. The majority of Brazilians don't like carnival, samba, capoeira etc... Not all Brazilians are black or African descent, not all black Brazilians are " Yoruba. Most of the slaves in Brazil were brought from the Bantu regions of the Atlantic coast of Africa where today Congo and Angola are located, and also from Mozambique.

bjnorl:
African influence in Brazil is highly exaggerated. Many times specially abroad is exaggerated, either to make us exotic or used for political reasons. The majority of Brazilians don't like carnival, samba, capoeira etc... Not all Brazilians are black or African descent, not all black Brazilians are " Yoruba. Most of the slaves in Brazil were brought from the Bantu regions of the Atlantic coast of Africa where today Congo and Angola are located, and also from Mozambique.

Nobody’s saying Yoruba are the only Africans or that Africans are the only people in Brazil, but that there’s a large Yoruba presence in Brazil that Nigerians and the Nigerian government suppose show much more interest.

How can African influence in Brazil be exaggerated?

You meant to say African influence in Brazil is under stated?

Africa influences the entire globe. There is no single nation on this planet that hasn’t been influenced by Africa in one way or another; but there are some that have been influenced more than others.

Brazil is amongst the many countries around the world that Africa culture is a major influence more so.

Be apart of the African narative; a generational change of thinking; Let us re-instate the glory days of African positive influence on the rest of the world.

Africa is the cradle of humanity.

Amujale:

Brazil, but that there’s a large Yoruba presence in Brazil that Nigerians and the Nigerian government suppose show much more interest.

Really? I never heard of it. Salvador, in the state of Bahia is a city of great Yoruba / Nago heritage located in northeastern Brazil. Candomble and Umbanda were also introduced by the African cultures. Bahia is one of the 27 states of Brazil.

Everyday Examples of Exaggeration
- The Tapioca Couscous also known as White Couscous or Bahia Couscous, is one of many versions of the North African couscous, brought to Brazil by Portuguese colonizers. This recipe is very popular in the North and Northeast regions, especially in Bahia.- Couscous is a Maghrebi dish of small steamed balls of crushed durum wheat semolina ( in brazilian portuguese "cuzcuz" ).

African Brazilian version
" Reflecting the diverse heritage of Brazil, tapioca couscous is an African slave recipe". WTF?? Tapioca originating in North and Northeast Brazil, with indigenous origin. Cuzcuz is a maghrebi dish.
African Brazilian version
" The origin of pão de queijo (Brazilian cheese bread) is unclear, but it seems likely that the recipe originated from African slaves who made the bread with cassava root." - Fake news. Colombian-inspired food.

- Candomblé is an Afro-Brazilian religion that has a strong presence in Brazil as a religious institution -
Sooooo fake. 3 million people; 1,5% of Brazil Population. Candomblé is a sacrificial religion that uses animals for its liturgical purposes. Traditional African customs Condemned by Brazilians.

- The state of Bahia is the centre of Candomble in Brazil.
Catholicism remains the predominant religion in Bahia. Candomblé is only 2 - 3% of the population

bjnorl and your point is? You seem to be confused with what has been said here.

There is certainly no exaggeration in stating that
Yoruba is recognised as ‘patrimonio imaterial’ to the people of Brazil.

Many thanks to the people of Brazil for their efforts towards making it happen, special thanks to the people of Rio De Janeiro.

Early Africans are probably the first to inhabit Brazil, Africans colonised the Americas long before the birth of Christopher Colombus.

The influence of African culture is evident even in the ways of the Red Indians, formerly thought to be the first settlers in that region; the culture and traditions of these group is at times identical to that of some mainland African.

On closer examination, produced conclusive evidence to suggest that these distinct cultural traits are carried over from the first settlers in the Americas; Africans.

learn more here: https://www.nairaland.com/778183/african-presence-ancient-america-before

Amujale:
Early Africans are probably the first to inhabit Brazil, Africans colonised the Americas long before the birth of Christopher Colombus.

The influence of African culture is evident even in the ways of the Red Indians, formerly thought to be the first settlers in that region; the culture and traditions of these group is at times identical to that of some mainland African.

On closer examination, produced conclusive evidence to suggest that these distinct cultural traits are carried over from the first settlers in the Americas; Africans.

learn more here: https://www.nairaland.com/778183/african-presence-ancient-america-before

WTF?? Lol you're crazy. Brazilians are originally Native Americans. Native Americans come from Asia. All latin Americans are originally Native Americans. Afrocentric people are crazy.

bjnorl:
Brazilians are originally Native Americans. Native Americans come from Asia. All latin Americans are originally Native Americans.

Did you bother to research what was said.

A Red Indian culture enthusiast and have great interest in its reasearch; about five years research makes me come up with these findings.

Without a shadow of doubt, there are distinct and undeniable found connection between the Red Indians with much of mainland African culture.

There are various theories to explain this, one of the leading theories is an African viewpoint, the Red Indians are said to have come from the line of the Olmecs.

According to Jose Melar, the Olmecs are supposed to have migrated from Africa (is comprehensively addressed in the “Olmec alternative origin...” documents).

According to modern day African scholars however, The Olmecs are identified with the Mandé people.

Yoruba is recognised as ‘patrimonio imaterial’ to the people of Brazil.

Many thanks to the people of Brazil for their efforts towards making it happen, special thanks to the people of Rio De Janeiro.

Not true, but if you Google "Babalawo", the pictures showing up will be that of Brazilians

Yoruba is recognised as ‘patrimonio imaterial’ to the people of Brazil.

Many thanks to the people of Brazil for their efforts towards making it happen, special thanks to the people of Rio De Janeiro.