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Africa: How a School Project in the Amazon Is Tracing Afro-Brazilian Ancestry Back to Africa's Great Empires
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[African Arguments] In Alcântara, a quilombola territory in Brazil's Amazon, students are using DNA tests, historical research and oral memory to uncover ancestral connections to West Africa and reclaim histories erased by slavery and colonialism.
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