The Capoeira Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/the-capoeira/ Arts and African History Thu, 02 Apr 2015 22:53:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The Afrikan Origins Of The Capoeira https://consciousness.co.za/the-afrikan-origins-of-the-capoeira/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-afrikan-origins-of-the-capoeira/#respond Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:47:05 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=1186 By Bakari R. Akil II Global Black News http://www.cwo.com Born out of an ever present need to protect themselves in a hostile environment, Africans enslaved in Brazil practiced a martial art now called Capoeira. Its methods were sneaky, the results often brutal and when needed, deadly. Capoeira was and is composed of cat like movements [...]

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