ABSTRACT
The article proposes to contribute to the valorization of the oral memory of the African diaspora in the contemporary Latin-Brazilian context, with emphasis on the relationship between identity and African diaspora of the beginning of the 21st century. Ethnographic data collected between the years of 2013 and 2015 in the State of Rio de Janeiro were used for the development of the article. Interviews with Angolans living in the capital of Rio de Janeiro and interested in maintaining an oral memory of the contemporary African diaspora in Brazil were conducted. Therefore, the power of ideas and beliefs were analyzed to identify the networks of social and subjective movement and reproduction that mobilize the subjects involved in the research, emphasizing the importance of safeguarding the contemporary Atlantic memory, so that it is neither forgotten nor silenced.
Keywords:
Angolans; African diaspora; immaterial culture; oral memory; identity; cultural studies