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At Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the life of a 16th-century ‘travesti’ echoes into the present
In a time of political hostility and violence, a samba school in Rio de Janeiro decided to highlight the realities of the ...
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Yoruba, Kimbundu and Kikongo: How African languages shaped Brazilian Portuguese
Heritage pride in the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro is just one important symbol of a 3,000-plus-word legacy that is still ...