Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

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One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...

Just to save others from having to look it up, the Bantu languages include Swahili and Zulu, which were the only two languages that I recognized in the list. Apparently, there are hundreds of mutually ...

THE ORIGIN of THE MAKAI.—In the Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society. No. 28, Mr. .C. L. Bolton criticises the theories on the origin of the Masai and other non-Bantu races of ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering ...

Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...