Abstract
Os estudos africanos têm uma história profundamente política no Brasil, que mostra que aqui, como em outros contextos, estudar a África não e’ algo “natural”, mas o resultado de bastante engenharia social e intelectual. Este artigo analisa a originalidade dos estudos africanos no Brasil, se comparado com o Norte global, e trata de uma série de desafios e entraves que derivam da fragilidade institucional destes estudos e do clima político adverso na maior parte dos países do Brics – Brasil, África do Sul e Índia. Na última parte o artigo apresenta uma série de novos caminhos que podem ser trilhados para o desenvolvimento e a consolidação da conexão Sul-Sul nos estudos africanos realizados no Brasil.
Highlights
African studies have had a profoundly political history in Brazil that shows that in this country, such as elsewhere, studying Africa is not a natural fact, but depends on political, geostrategic and economic interests as well as quite a degree of intellectual engineering
In my work as facilitator of African studies in Brazil, maybe even as passeur of African studies, together with a group of colleagues, I have tried to incorporate African studies in the mainstream of the social studies as a part of larger effort to decolonize our production of knowledge by developing new South-South links and promoting what I call a new horizontal curiosity – as a way to counter our historical vertical obsession with
Summary
African studies have had a profoundly political history in Brazil that shows that in this country, such as elsewhere, studying Africa is not a natural fact, but depends on political, geostrategic and economic interests as well as quite a degree of intellectual engineering.
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