Street encounters in Lisbon
<p>This is my new buddy. He is from Brazil. I think we chatted for around 20 minutes or something like that. He was telling me about the November 20 celebration in Brazil which is black awareness day: “The focus during these events is to dissolve the perception of Africans’ inferiority in society.” He said it is to celebrate (I had to google this because could not remember the person’s name) a guy named Zumbi dos Palmeres, an exceptionally famous individual in Afro-Brazilian culture from the 1700s. He was the leader and a warrior of a fugitive band of free Africans in a part of Brazil. He killed a lot of people, harassed plantation owners, raided plantations to free slaves, and would have his members sneak into plantations and persuade slaves to run away or rise up and kill/ revolt against their masters. How very interesting. He was eventually betrayed by a mulato and was beheaded on November 20th. His head was displayed in the capital.</p>
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