Brazilian and African sources for the study 'ill
of cultural transferences from Brazil to Africa
are available in terms of documentation and what kinds of research are currently
being undertaken within Brazil.- In Säo Paulo, the sociologist Eduardo de Oliveira e Oliveira is engaged in a study of
Brazilian Négritude, with interested Afro-Brazilian students at Campinas, there
are functioning Afro-Brazilian institutes in Joinville Santa Catarina (a week of
Afro-Brazilian culture sponsored by the institute and the state of Santa Catarina
was planned for July 1977), Porto Alegre, and a number of similar centres in Rio and
Salvador, that of Did dos Santos, Institute of Afro-Bahian Studies. - Personal communication from Professor Fola Soremekua, History Department,
Universite of Ife, Nigeria, 21 October 1976. - Paper presented by Professor Anani Dzidzienyo at Ife Conference, in July, 1976 on
'Images of African and the Afro-Latin American', paper of Dzidzienyo at South
Eastern Conference on Latin American Studies, Tuskeegee, Alabama, April 1977,
'Activity and Inactivity in the Politics of Afro-Latin America'. - Dakar served as the administrative centre for l'Afrique Occidentale Française thereby
receiving the archival collection after the dissolution of the massive African colonial
empire. - Archives d'Outre-Mer, also called because of its Paris address, Rue Oudinot, the most
complete repository of French colonial documentation. - See Turner, 'Les Brésiliens—The Impact of Former Brazilian Slaves Upon Dahomey',
Boston University, 1975 (unpublished Ph.D. thesis): 'Os Escravos Brasileiros no
Daomé', Afro-Asia, Nos. 8-9, 1970; Lathardus Goggins (ed.), 'Reversing the
Trend: Afro-Brazilian Influences in West Africa' The Thematic Conceptual Ap-
proach to African History, Dubuque, Iowa, in press; 'A Manipulaçâo da Religiäo:
o Caso dos Afro-baianos', Cultura, No. 23, October-December, 1976;'Brazilian-
African Points of Contact', Cadernos de Candido hiendes, Revista do Centro Afro-
Asiático, No. 1, November, 1977. - Dahomey-Benin, a country the size of Kentucky has had an unfortunate political
history since its independence from France in 1960. During the period 1970-73, a
rotating three-president council was enacted in an attempt to stop almost chronic
coups d'état. The system ended in a coup with brought to power present military
Marxist dictatorship. - Documents from the Cuidah Catholic mission proved invaluable in reconstructing
the social life of returned Afro-Brazilians during the nineteenth century, aided by
African Mission Society records in France and Italy which cover the society's
nineteenth-century workings in Togo and Nigeria as well as Dahomey. - Example of African neighbours, the first President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio (assas-
sinated while in office), was born in Dahomey and is buried in Dahomey, on ancestral
land of his Afro-Brazilian descendants. The De Sousa family, a key Afro-Brazilian
clan, has branches in Togo as well as in Benin. - Of great value is the collection under the jurisdiction of Mrs Da Rocha Thomas, of
Casa de Agua, Lagos, Nigeria. She is President of the Lagos Brazilian Friendly
Society and provided the writer with invaluable leads during his time in Lagos
in 1972. - Turner, 'Manipulaçâo', Cultura, p. 61; 'Points of Contact', Cadernos.
- In personal communication from Professor Dzidizienyo, Ghanaian professor at Cape
Coast University, Ghana, did a thesis on Portuguese Africa and Brazil, 15 March
- Wayne Selcher, The Afro-Asian Dimension of Brazilian Foreign Policy, Gainesville,