The AFRO-BRAZILIANS of ACCRA, 1836-Present Times
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- Today’s episode will be focused on the Afro-Brazilians of Accra and the ways in which they exemplify the relations between the New World and Africa and also illustrate forms of transnational cosmopolitanism that evades the usual Global North circuits via which the two terms are normally defined. A shipload of Afro-Brazilians returned to Accra in 1836 comprising 200 people made up of 70 families. The reasons for their arrival as a group specifically in 1836 and in not in previous years will be explored, as will the ways in which they were received in then pre-colonial Accra and incorporated into the social and cultural life of the Ga, the indigenous denizens of Accra. We will see that the Afro-Brazilians introduced various forms of urban skills and livelihood that were not generally present before their arrival, and that by this means they helped to further diversify the hybrid cultural formation of Accra that had already been impacted by the rise of the mulatto (mixed race) offspring of European men and local women and their consolidation as the bridgehead between Europeans and locals from the seventeenth century onward.
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Suggested Reading
Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani, “Introduction: Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes,” A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism, (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013).
Marco Aurelio Schaumloeffel, Tabom: the Afro-Brazilian Community in Ghana (Accra: Embassy of Brazil/Itamaraty, 2009).
Amos, Alcione M. and Ebenezer Ayesu, “’I am Brazilian’: History of the Tabon, Afro-Brazilians in Accra, Ghana”, Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, ns (2003): 35-58.
Ato Quayson, Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism, (Durham: Duke, 2014).
Kwame Essien, Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home, (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2016),
Awesome history of the Afro-Brazilians. Prof, how about we raising some funds to bring some of your scripts to the screen as a documentary series? Happy to help with fundraising. Great job!
Good to know the history of Tabons. Thanks from Brazil
Thank you for this comprehensive history, love this. More please?
You have another subscriber!
Always a joy learning at the feet of the Meister. Keep up the good work Prof
Thanks, will do!
This is deep. very deep. Today's session gives me a reason to add ''Oxford Street'' to my lists of books to read after submitting my thesis. thank you, Prof.
Glad you liked it, Agyeiwaa.
Prof, thank you for breaking down and explaining the various types of diasporas. This is very insightful and useful in thinking about my own work about Afro-Brazilian - Africa relations.
Bright, I am glad you found the episode useful. Small small. . .
I am Brazilian and I live in Brazil. What an impressive story of Afro-Brazilians in Ghana!
H Alfeu, I am glad you liked the episode. There is so much to discover all the way to the other end of the world. I hope you get to visit Ghana someday. You will have a great time.
@@CriticReadingWriting My grandfather was talking about this return. I always wanted to delve deeper into this subject. Brazil is the country with the largest black population after Nigeria. Thank you for sharing knowledge.
@@inssprevidenciaadvogadoalfeu There are about 210,147,125 people living in Brazil. Blacks constitutes 7.61 % of the population corresponding to 15,992,196. Even Ghana has around 31,000,000 people and many other African countries have more than that. So, how come Brazil have the largest black population after Nigeria?
@@africantruth2539 The black population in Brazil represents 54% of the population.
@@africantruth2539 because the mixed-race Brazilians called "Pardos" I'm white but my grandpa was Black, it happen in majority of Brazilian families in diferent forms
Beautiful Video! Thanks for that! I am from Pernambuco! In Accra now! I will looking for Brazil House in James Town!
Thank you very much my name is Joana lekia Nelson a real tabon, my dad was Cecil Assumah Nelson, his mother was called Joana fiscian tabon, and my dad's family was from the first scissors, house.My dad's sister a Nelson , married another Nelson a tabon, whose father was called Antonio Nelson a very wealthy gold Smith, who was born in Bahia, successful in Accra built several houses ,even in koforidua.
My grandfather Benjamin Nelson ,was a British trained accountant, worked as an accountant with the railways,I Takoradi western region and he had his own welfurnished luxury coach he slept in as he did his auditing on all the stations of the gold coast, .
My dad's first cousin professor Cyril Fiscian was the first African professor of sociology, my dad himself highly educated rose high up in corporate Ghana,his younger brother also was a successful international solicitor,
I am also a gift artist and successful craft's designer with global clientele,my sister Ginatu famous fashion designer as early as her twenties ,dressed many famous people globally and most high profile people, including ambassador's and spouses in the 1980's in Accra.
Finally my mum Anna Mary Briandt was from OSU, flower garden the famous Briandt family home of Danish descent.
Please read about sesemei near abokobi, where the Dane's fled to when the British bomed the christianborg castle and administered affairs from there thanks
Hi Joana, thanks for this detailed information about your Tabon family. Fiscian is one of the names of the early arrivals, and of course Nelson was one of the family heads back then. I have actually been to visit the Danish lands at Abokobi. The Lokkos have a vast tract there as do the Swanikers. The Danes cultivated coffee on those lands during the mid-nineteenth century when they when the economy was shifting from slavery to legitimate trade but it looks like the coffee plantation enterprise did not fare that well. It was very difficult to pay the laborers properly and there were frequent conflicts.
There is so so much fascinating history yet to be told about the many people that make up Ghana.
Hello Joana. My grandfather was also born in Bahia and told us about some relatives who returned to Ghana.
Great presentation! Another suggested reading that would be very helpful and more recent is Kwame Essien's "Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana: The Tabom, Slavery, Dissonance of Memory, Identity, and Locating Home," published in 2016. This is the first academic book that analyzes, through the lenses of reverse migration theories, the formation of the Brazilian-Ghanaian identity and their forging relationship and steps to reconnect with Brazil. As one reviewer, Sean Reid describes it, "The book is organized into ten chronological and thematic chapters discussing
three generations of Brazilian-Africans in Ghana, loosely corresponding to the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods."
Great suggestion! I have heard of it but have not seen it yet. Will order myself a copy right away.
Will also add to the suggested readings in the episode description.
Thank you for your scholarship and educating me beyond any formal classroom setting. Stay blessed so you may continue to enrich our minds with knowledge of ourselves.
Hi Horace, thanks for your kind comments. One of my life-long mantras is taken from Chaucer's description of the Clerk in his Prologue to the Canterbury Tales: "And gladly would he learn/And gladly teach." There is no end to what we can discover if we are open to it.
2 Questions. How did the Brazilian Returnees select where they would settle in West Africa ? Some were born in slavery and probably did not know where they were originally from, correct ? Some left as slaves and returned. They probably knew where to return. So is it possible that Brazilian slaves that came from Congo or Angola ended up in West Africa as returnees ? Loved your video btw.
How do you know they were Islamicized and what is the significance of pointing that out
Seria bom se eles voltassem a falar português 😊assim seriam brasileiros 🇧🇷
Hiao
Now I know where I come from😅🤣🤣