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Aug 12
2008

African American Monuments & Statues: Afro-Brazilians and Zumbi

Posted by The Black Art Depot in Pan AfricanMonuments and StatuesBrazil

The Black Art Depot

I was reading an article about what foreign languages African American should teach their children when I read this paragraph:

"The conservative estimate is that half the population in Brazil is of African descent – which means that Brazil has a black population that is almost three times the size of the African-American population in the United States. Brazil has the largest number of African descendents in the Americas. In the world, Brazil is second only to Nigeria in terms of the number of black people living within its borders."

I had no idea that there were that many people of African