Good Morning, people.
This is the third part of a six-part series on my thesis, "Coming to Voice through Capoeira: Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora." This episode is focussed on the word "Mandinga" its meaning, and how the Empire of Mali, which was the largest empire in West Africa, helped cultivate the spirit of resistance in Capoeira.
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References:
1. Diouf, S. A. (1998). Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. NYU Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfp48
2. Reis, J. José. (1993). Slave rebellion in Brazil the muslim uprising of 1835 in Bahia. Johns Hopkins University Press.
3. Da Conceição Paz, A. (2023). Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora (Dissertation). Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62662
4. Bragg, M. (2015) In our time, the Empire of Mali, BBC Radio 4. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06kgggv (Accessed: 31 March 2025).
Podcast Music:
Kaspars Liepins Hedström
End Credits Music:
Contra Mestre Thiago Ferreira Samambaia
Grupo Capoeira de Besouro.
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