The carioca's pan-africanism from the 70's and 80's of the 20th century XX

Abstract

This paper aims at understanding how the Black university circle in Rio de Janeiro received and interpreted certain pan-Africanist ideas expressed by the leading figures of independence movements in African countries and giving the concept of nationalist activism a new meaning in the 1970s and 1980s. The work hypothesis is that the Cândido Mendes University's Afro-Asian Studies Center (1973-2016) served as a mediating stance between academics and activists, providing information and educating said agents on the historical developments taking place at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in the pre-internet era. In that sense, the Center takes center stage in our analysis. The work deploys multiple approaches, building the discussion through a combination of methodological practices such as mapping the Afro-Asian Studies magazine, an etnography of the Center's archives - which are currently being catalogued and organized - and a number of interviews that helped us guide the research.