A heightened focus on Brazil’s African heritage is a driving factor in the South American country’s surging visitor arrivals. In 2024, Brazil recorded its best-ever year for international arrivals, ...

SAO PAOLO, Brazil (UNHCR) - Seated in his São Paulo apartment among bongos, tambourines and paintings of savannah sunsets, Mikanda*, a soft-spoken 38-year-old, tells the story of his arrival alone in ...

Brazil’s Mostra de Cinemas Africanos is using its 2026 edition to challenge the idea that African cinema is mainly defined by social realism. This year’s program puts science fiction, horror, action, ...

November is marked by offerings of marigolds to the dead in Mexico, minutes of silence to honour fallen soldiers in Britain and turkey feasts to give thanks in the United States. In Brazil it used to ...

But Afro-Brazilian religions, which don’t have a concept of absolute evil, see Exú as playful. Although African-derived religiosity has been embedded in samba schools since their origins, it was only ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Isaac Mizrahi writes about multicultural marketing and business. As the country's demographic trends shift towards a ...

Read the original version in Portuguese here. The Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB-RJ) is hosting the International Competition for the New Rio-Africa Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro. The ...