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Abdias do Nascimento

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Brazilian politician (1914–2011)

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Born
1914
Works
21

Top works

  • Relações de raça no Brasil
  • Blacks in Brazil
  • Racial democracy in Brazil, myth or reality?
  • Sortilege (Black mystery)
  • O genocídio do negro brasileiro

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Franca, São Paulo, Brazil

Abdias do Nascimento (March 14, 1914 – May 23, 2011) was a prominent African Brazilian scholar, writer, visual artist, politician, poet, actor, playwright, and Pan-African activist, who created the Black Experimental Theater (1944) and the Black Arts Museum (1950), organized the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1946), the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950), and the Third Congress…

Known for

  • Othelo The Great — Self (archive footage)2024
  • Negro em Mim — Self (archive footage)2020
  • De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade — Self2020
  • Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Exu Rei - Abdias do Nascimento — Himself2017
  • Abdias do Nascimento - Memória Negra — Self2008
  • CINEMA NOIR2004
  • Ôrí — Self1989
  • Abolition — Himself1988
  • Fala Mangueira! — Self1983

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
Brazil
Place of birth
Franca
Place of death
Rio de Janeiro
Languages spoken
Portuguese
Native language
Portuguese
Field of work
politics
Image
Abdias do Nascimento.jpg
Work location
Brasília
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Commons category
Abdias do Nascimento
date of birth
1911-01-01
date of death
2014-01-01
ethnic group
African Brazilians
manner of death
natural causes
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