O Pan-Africanismo na obra O Quilombismo de Abdias Nascimento

Abstract

The general objective of this research is to describe how Pan-Africanism is incorporated in the concept of quilombismo, created by Abdias Nascimento. To achieve this objective, at first, a bibliographic research is carried out on the history and concept of Pan-Africanism and its main aspects. Subsequently, we will demonstrate Nascimento's trajectory, emphasizing moments that were important for his contact with the Pan-Africanist movement, such as his self-exile, between the years of 1968-1981. During which time he participated in several Pan-African congresses and meetings, which can be found in biographies, sociological studies, collections and in his own books. In a second moment, wishing not only to summarize the importance of the intellectual as a militant, but also to analyze within a theoretical-scientific perspective, his work O Quilombismo: documents of a pan-Africanist militancy (1980) shows us important aspects about the incorporations and transformations that occurred with the author's thought in contact with the Pan-Africanist ideology, and how these notions were applied to the understanding of the reality of black people in the Brazilian context. In this way, it was perceived that Nascimento's relationship with Pan-Africanism radicalized his voice for the causes of Afro-Brazilians, ending up revealing the reality of Africans and Afro-descendants in Brazil. Therefore, the intellectual production of this author is an important contribution to the recognition and appreciation of the history, cultural manifestations and memories of the Afro-Brazilian population. In addition, it was found that the intellectual developed the project of the National Quilombist State, an alternative model for a free, fair, egalitarian and sovereign Brazilian society reorganization