These discussions made possible to map the needs and perspectives for the implementation of the national curriculum guidelines for the Education on ethnic-racial relations, and on African and African-Brazilian History and Culture in the basic educational system of Brazil.

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This fascinating exhibition like the Guggenheim display shows how art and archaeology can be at the Janus-face of culture, looking both back in time to ancient Indian civilisations and forward to the Brazil of today, and even tomorrow.

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The Palmares Cultural Foundation together with the UNESCO Slave Route Project hold from the 20th to the 23rd of August 2012 in Brasilia (Brazil), an international seminar entitled "Heritage, Identity and Culture: management of sites and places of memory related to the slave trade and slavery" which brought together experts in charge of the most significant sites and places of memory linked to this tragedy.

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They bear testimony to the transformation of an essentially oral southern African culture, through the assimilation of the Portuguese language and its repercussion on both Portugal and Brazil.

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The highest political authorities from Brazil (Ministers of Promotion of Racial Equality, Tourism, Education, Culture as well as the Governor of the Federal District), and important personalities from Benin, Ecuador, Nigeria, Senegal who are concerned by this thematic, will be present on that occasion.

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The inscription of Cais do Valongo (Valongo wharf), an important archaeological dig in the centre of Rio de Janeiro, in the World Heritage List of UNESCO was another prominent theme of the seminar, which brought together experts and authorities on black culture and history from Brazil and several countries, most Africans.

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