DE ÁFRICA, NZINGA; DA DIÁSPORA, DANDARA: COSMOPERCEPÇÃO DESCOLONIZANDO O CORPO NEGRO

Abstract

The Nigerian sociologist Oyèrónke Oyěwùmí (1997) proposes a distinction between the Western way of producing a word and the African way. The Wester’s way, who here we will take as White (SODRÉ, 1988), produces a world through a cosmovision, privileging a single sense, the vision. Non-White peoples, like de traditional Yoruba people living in Nigeria, produce a world relating all senses, without hierarchizing them, what Oyěwùmí calls “cosmoperception”. Thus, from the cosmoperception of the Bantu peoples of the Quilombo dos Palmares of Brazil, it is intended to investigate the place that bodies like Nzinga Mbande and Dandara dos Palmares occupy in non-White societies. Other senses that potencializes policies for the decolonization of black bodies that have been and are to come.