Africans on the move: circulation of people, knowledge and religious experience between the rivers of Guinea and the Cape Verde archipelago (15th-17th centuries)

• Autor(a) principal: Horta, José Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/47140
• topic: Grande Senegâmbia; Cabo Verde; Circulação de africanos; Percursos de vida; Interacções culturais; Greater Senegambia; Cape Verde; Circulation of Africans; Life trajectories; Cultural interactions

This article deals with Africans who moved between the rivers of Greater Senegambia and the Cape Verde islands, from the late 15th century up to the 17th century. Using fragments of some life trajectories recorded in travel writings, it questions the extent to which this movement socially and culturally changed the lives of men and women who had achieved a high or recognized status in the Upper Guinea Coast. Conversely, a glimpse is given of how their presence might have influenced all those, Africans, Europeans and Luso-Africans, who interacted with them in the spaces in which they lived. The transit of religious experiences is one of the dimensions exemplified. In the case studies in which this movement of freemen allowed a return to continental Africa, the article aims to reconstruct its circumstances and conditions.