BETWEEN AFRICA AND RECIFE: INTERPRETATIONS OF THE CHAMBA CULT
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This article aims at discussing the Atlantic perspectives that seek to delineate frontiers and present continuities between cultural practices in Africa and the Diaspora, particularly between Brazil and the Continent. It explores those issues by discussing possible interfaces between the religious rituals which organize the daily lives of Africans of the chamba ethnicity in Nigeria, Cameroon and Togo. Those rituals are also practiced in the Santa Bárbara Terreiro, a candomblé house located in Recife, Pernambuco, whose nation is denominated xambá. Hence, the author points out to correspondences between the Mama Tchamba ritual in Togo – ritual of the memory of enslavement and women´s resistance to Islamic domination in the XIX century – and the Praising of Oyá – a female grounded ceremony in the Terreiro de Santa Barbara. The article brings to light the intersection between the cult to Afrekête – daomean vodu – and its presence as one of the orixás in that Terreiro’s pantheon.
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