Paper short abstract:

Displays intellectuals Centro de Estudos Afro Orientais dedicated to issues concerning Africans and african-Brazilian: Agostinho da Silva Costa Vivaldo Lima, Waldir Freitas Oliveira, Pierre Verger, Paulo de Moraes Farias, Guilherme de Sousa Castro, Yeda Pessoa de Castro and Julio Braga.

Paper long abstract:

This paper discusses itineraries intellectuals who worked at the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO) Federal University of Bahia (UFBa) since its founding in 1959 until 1982, over two decades of operation. Marked by interest in the humanities and social sciences, in Brazil to produce knowledge about the African continent and of african descent, the CEAO agglutinated different researchers. Throughout this period acted George Agostinho da Silva, Pierre Verger, Vivaldo Costa Lima, Waldir Freitas Oliveira, Paulo de Moraes Farias, Guilherme de Sousa Castro, Yeda Pessoa de Castro, Julio Braga, who corroborated for the conformation of a field of african studies -Brazilian and African studies stimulated in Brazil. To analyze the different pathways that intellectuals have developed should be considered in addition to academic production, other activities undertaken by the Centre for the exchange of researchers and students between Brazil and African countries like Nigeria, Senegal, the relationships established with government through the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, which dialoguing with the proposed approach with academic Africa, had as a partner to participate in some events in Africa quoting the Second Festival of Black Arts in 1977, in Nigeria. These intellectuals had their paths marked by closeness or distance to the different demands of the black population in Salvador in the construction of the Afro Brazilian Museum in 1982, was a significant moment.