From Guinea-Bissau to Colombia. Benkos Biohó, resistance and (is) Palenque. A case of the African Diaspora
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https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i16.2042Keywords:
Afrodescendant movement, African resistance, Palenque, Benkos BiohóAbstract
In this article I mention the case of Benkos Biohó as a symbolic figure of the african, afrodescendant and afrocolombian resistance, conducted by the "palenques" (known as "quilombos" in Brazil), manifestations of resistance that started in Africa and were reproduced later in America during human traffic, colonization and enslavement. Today, this strategies are reinvented and reformulated by the afrodescendants, women and men, that live in this territories. Regarding the ways and methods, these were always diverse, from the armed fight to the freedom demands in courts. But they always looked for advances, improvements and progress in an opressor colonial system.
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