Newspapers in collection with listingTof port activities in Salvador, other relevant
commercial news a represent valuable secondary source or, depending upon availa-
bility of archival material, at times a primary source.
Study of Susan Soeiro, thesis for Ph.D. New York University, 1975, economic history
of eighteenth-century Salvador as indicated by documents located in the Convent
of the Desterro, research in Salvador 1970-71.
The Edelweiss collection for Afro-Brazilian culture was also extensive and worth a
visit for encountering old and very rare books. He also had old but general works
concerning Africa, most anthropological studies.
Freitas, 'Desenvolvimento', p. 114-15.
The CEAA of Candido Mendes offers a series of extension courses, open to the Rio
community attracting as wide an audience as possible, charging tuition fees for
each course offered.
In 1976 its director, José Maria Pereira journeyed on a semi-official mission to Angola,
Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau to investigate the possibilities of greater cultural
and educational exchange between Brazil and those countries, principally to bring
African students to study in Brazilian universities, and aid in Brazilian technological
assistance in African educational projects and planning.
Course offerings for academic year 1977, include several courses on African ideology,
decolonization (the Portuguese example) and problems of African development using
models from North Africa, West, Central and Southern Africa.
The much contested and discussed 'Black Rio' cultural social movement despite
alledged foreign influence and intervention in Brazilian culture is serving to provide
a sense of cultural identity to many of Rio's Afro-Brazilian residents. Much of the
intellectual life of the city's Afro-Brazilians, conferences and symposiums are
beginning to take into account the cultural phenomenon that began with the popu-
larity of American ' soul ' music and black American life styles but is slowly finding
its own Brazilian voice and raison d'être.
The Second Annual Conference on Black (Afro-Brazilian) contributions to Brazilian
culture were held at the Federal University of Fluminense, Niteroi, in November
In Salvador, while there is also evidence of the 'Black Rio' movement, for Afro-
Brazilians of that ciiy it is necessary to move past the omnipresent Afro-Bahian
religious cult life which has so marked Afro-Bahian culture. In Rio there is not the
same strong cultural tradition for that city's Afro-Brazilian population, allowing
greater possibility for self-expression, for this 'Black Rio' began in Rio and not in
Salvador.
One of the advisers to Itamarati's participation in the recent World Festival of African
Art and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, was the USP centre, whose director, Professor
F. Mouräo gave one of the seminar papers at the Colloquium on African Culture
which opened FESTAC.
In October 1976, African students at USP presented an exposition on Africa, aimed
at the Säo Paulo business community to demonstrate investment possibilities and
potentialities on the continent, the exposition was held at USP, with administrative
assistance by the centre.
In July 1977, Professor Mouräo went in the company of the Rector of USP on a tour
of West African universities to begin a series of exchanges between USP and these
African universities.
One of the topics for the Fluminense Conference in November, 1977 was the need
for a kind of clearing-house of information on Afro-Brazilian studies, what resources
