"Minha casa é um quilombo" e o terno de Moçambique é o meu batalhão

Abstract

In this essay, I tried to characterize and analyze the Mozambique’s Quilombo do Terno Zumbi dos Palmares from my own experience as a member, and my body as a black man. The Congadas’ apprentices, who declare themselves in many nations, especially in Mozambiques, characterize as Afro-Bantas’ traditions heirs in the Brazilian diaspora. The Mozambique’s manifestation, successively, as an afro-religious expression of Banta origin, present itself in a dance form of the characteristics elements also in a philosophy of life inside Congadas celebrations’ circles. When talking about the studied community it was possible to observe strategies weft afro-centered, those that objectify the maintenance, the invention and the reinvention of a “diasporic” cosmos-perception, that can be exemplified in the Quilombeiros, community’s own entities, just as the way which the members bond with each other and the sacred.