Abdias do Nascimento
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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
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- Employer
- University at Buffalo
- Political party
- Democratic Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Native language
- Portuguese
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Abdias do Nascimento.jpg
- Work location
- Brasília
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- cause of death
- cardiovascular disease
- 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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