by Raheem Todd — The thrilling African-Brazilian dance, capoeira (pronounced cop-wee-era), was brought to Brazil and other parts of South America by Africans transported in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The enslaved Africans used movements from an Angolan zebra dance to mask their combat training in preparation for escape to freed-slave communities. Capoeira has made headlines […]
January 23, 2013
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