Performance and Ancestral Heritage: what does Bakongo cosmology teach about black Brazilian childhood?

Through African and Afro-diasporic references, it is proposed a reflexive exercise on Black children and their performances. Based on studies about Bantu-Kongo cosmology, an approach to Bakongo childhood is sought to provide an understanding of the performances of black Brazilian childhood, relating them to the preservation of African civilizational values. It is concluded, considering ancestral heritage and a cosmological notion of circular time, that Brazilian Black children, through performance, are able to bring together past and present, ancestral and living, renewing memory and keeping the values of Afro-Brazilian civilization alive.

Keywords:
Black Children; Bakongo Cosmology; Ancestral Heritage; Children and Performance; Performance

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Gladis Elise Pereira da Silva Kaercher

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Porto Alegre/RS, BrazilUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Porto Alegre/RS, BrazilUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul – UFRGS, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil

Gladis Elise Pereira da Silva Kaercher is a professor in the Graduate Program in Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the line of research on Education, Cultures and Humanities, holds a Master's degree in Education from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a doctoral degree in Education from the UFRGS. She is currently an Associate Professor level 4, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Coordinator of UNIAFRO/UFRGS, Member of WG 26a of TCE/RS, working mainly on the following topics: Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations (ERER), teacher training for ERER, anti-racism, childhood, Literature and difference. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0632-2145 Email: gskaaercher@gmail.com

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0632-2145

Gabriel Fortes Pereira

Gabriel Fortes Pereira is a Master's student in the Graduate Program in Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the line of research on Education, Cultures and Humanities. Pedagogue from UFRGS. He is dedicated to the study of ethnic-racial relations in the education of very young and young children based on the Bakongo Cosmology presented by Bunseki Fu-Kiau, in addition to other African philosophies. Member of the Africanities Network Research Group/UFBA. Invited researcher at the Rekhet center of the Geru Maa Laboratory of Africanology and Amerindian Studies (UFRJ). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-8854 Email: gabrielfortespereira@gmail.com

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-8854

Gladis Elise Pereira da Silva Kaercher is a professor in the Graduate Program in Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the line of research on Education, Cultures and Humanities, holds a Master's degree in Education from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and a doctoral degree in Education from the UFRGS. She is currently an Associate Professor level 4, at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Coordinator of UNIAFRO/UFRGS, Member of WG 26a of TCE/RS, working mainly on the following topics: Education for Ethnic-Racial Relations (ERER), teacher training for ERER, anti-racism, childhood, Literature and difference. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0632-2145 Email: gskaaercher@gmail.com

Gabriel Fortes Pereira is a Master's student in the Graduate Program in Education at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in the line of research on Education, Cultures and Humanities. Pedagogue from UFRGS. He is dedicated to the study of ethnic-racial relations in the education of very young and young children based on the Bakongo Cosmology presented by Bunseki Fu-Kiau, in addition to other African philosophies. Member of the Africanities Network Research Group/UFBA. Invited researcher at the Rekhet center of the Geru Maa Laboratory of Africanology and Amerindian Studies (UFRJ). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6874-8854 Email: gabrielfortespereira@gmail.com

Editors-in-charge: Taís Ferreira; Melissa Ferreira; Fabiana de Amorim Marcello

This original paper, translated by Roberto Cândido (Tikinet Edição Ltda.), is also published in Portuguese in this issue of the journal.

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Dikenga dia kongo: bakongo cosmogram.

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Illustration available in the work Kindezi: the Kongo art of babysitting.

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Figure 1 Dikenga dia kongo: bakongo cosmogram.

Source: Pereira (2021)PEREIRA, Gabriel Fortes. Kindezi, the kongo art of babysitting: contribuições da cosmologia bakongo de Bunseki Fu-Kiau para pensar a educação de crianças. 2021. Orientação de Gladis Elise Pereira da Silva Kaercher. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Licenciatura em Pedagogia) – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2021..

Figure 2 Illustration available in the work Kindezi: the Kongo art of babysitting.

Source: Fu-Kiau and Lukondo-Wamba (2000, p. 6)FU-KIAU, Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki; LUKONDO-WAMBA, A. M. Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting. c 1988. Baltimore: Inprint Editions, 2000..

Figure 3 Illustration available in the work Kindezi, the kongo art of babysitting.

Source: Fu-Kiau and Lukondo-Wamba (2000)FU-KIAU, Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki; LUKONDO-WAMBA, A. M. Kindezi: The Kongo Art of Babysitting. c 1988. Baltimore: Inprint Editions, 2000..

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