“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

For King Faisal, a 20-year-old winger from Ghana, the invitation to move to Brazil to play football is easily summed up: "It was a dream." "I believed when I came here, it would help me change the ...

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, many slave rebellions took place in the province of Bahia, Brazil. Among those, the most important one was the Malê Rebellion, a religious and ...