AFRICAN DIASPORA, ANCESTRALITY AND THE RELIGIOUS TRADITION OF CANDOMBLÉS:

CROSSROADS TO KNOW

Abstract

This article deals with the forced African diaspora and the consequent enslavement of black bodies from different African countries. Slavery in  Brazil is the longest in Latin America and until today it has serious consequences in the life of the black population. However, the category of ancestry is fundamental in the process of resistance to the different kinds of violence suffered throughout history. Ancestrality is a broad concept, which emphasizes the importance of generational relationships and it affirms the importance of the community. In this sense, the ancestral memory was fundamental in the process of building the Candomblé, as a religious experience of resistance to different sufferings, seeking to gather what was separated in the process of the diaspora. The methodology used is bibliographic and qualitative. The aim is to point to the need to study the African diaspora, the category of ancestry and the religious tradition of the Candomblé, its historical relations, placing itself as crossroads to be known,
aimed at overcoming religious intolerance.