Built in the 19th century to drain the swampy area around Praça Onze, the Mangue Canal is intrinsic to the region’s physical and human landscape. From an urban viewpoint, it […]

At the opposite end of Avenida Central, where the big-time carnival outfits were headlining at the official, white and Europeanized city’s parades, the revelers of Praça Onze occupied the streets […]

Photogenic Praça Onze has been widely documented. At times, it appears almost austere, with the clear outline of the Frenchified urbanization in the foreground. At other times, surrounded by leafy […]

Little Africa’s capital, Praça Onze was the point of convergence of the multi-ethnic and cultural spirit that characterized the region in the formation and dissemination of urban samba. The large […]

In 2011 and 2012, during excavations in the area where the Valongo Wharf stands today, near the Port of Rio de Janeiro and the only material vestige of enslaved Africans’ […]

In 2019, Carlos Vergara covered part of the ground at the Valongo Wharf with nine units of canvas. Using fragments and soil from the archaeological site as pigment, he imprinted […]

The texts we can hear here, read by actor Hilton Cobra, were published in Diário do Rio de Janeiro between 1821 and 1831. The rendition of the Rio newspaper’s “Advertisements” […]

Around one million enslaved Africans passed through and were forced to live at the Valongo Wharf Complex, considered the largest slave port in history. Built in 1811, the port was […]

  There is a Rio that flows through Brazil whose source lies in a territory that Heitor dos Prazeres once called “Little Africa”. If it seems tiny when compared to […]

Espaço de convivência: mural Kuikuro Apresentação por Janis Pérez Clémen, supervisora da Área de Educação do IMS. Ilustrações de danirampe. Leitura das palavras por Daniel Kuikuro. Edição de som de […]