Paper short abstract:

This is a study about the circulation of references between Mozambique and Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s and their effects on the development of public policies for the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history in Brazil.

Paper long abstract:

The effervescence of the liberation movements of the former European colonies on the African continent in the second half of the twentieth century, as well as the exchanges between revolutionary movements of different colonies that have been articulated against ethnocentrism, colonialism and European racism are central elements that have led to the shake-up of Western European hegemony over Africa and the world.

The African diaspora also relates to these revolutionary processes, establishing exchanges of ideas and people between Africa and countries with black populations in other parts of the world, reinforcing a "global communications system constituted by flows" (GILROY, 2001, p.170) .

This system is not born with the African revolutions, but in this period it gains a particular political character.

Thinking from this perspective, from the circulation of references, in analyzing the relations between an African revolutionary movement (Liberation Front of Mozambique - FRELIMO) and the Brazilian Black Movement, I intend to think of the struggle against the colonialism and construction of the Mozambican nation not only from the point of view of its particularities, but how this process relates to the black militancy in Brazil, which was restructured between the 1970s and 1980s.

I intend, therefore, to understand how new ideas and Mozambican references circulate in Brazil, as well as the effects that this circulation generates in Brazilian society, especially in what concerns the policies for the teaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history and culture in the country.