Abstract:
Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias is a renowned Brazilian historian with work developed at the Centre of West African Studies at Birminghan University. His long career of residence and research in the United Kingdom came after a decisive decade in which he lived in different countries of West Africa. Persecuted politically by the Brazilian military regime established in 1964, Farias left the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies at the Federal University of Bahia and was successively linked to different academic institutions in Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria to develop research in the emerging field of African history. In this text, based on three interviews given by Farias and in several correspondence deposited in collections of the Center for Afro-Oriental Studies and Pierre Verger Foundation, we discussed the dilemmas, difficulties and dialogues of the young historian in his African exile between 1964 and 1969.
Keywords:
Exile; Western Africa; Paulo Farias