Abdias Nascimento
This article proposes a reading of the reflections and forms of political and cultural actualization of a thinker in the contemporary Black movement of Brazil, namely Abdias Nascimento. The political writings of this author help retrace interpretations of actions carried out in the struggle against the discrimination that followed and is still following the post-abolitionist experience. Adhering to the thought of decolonization, and subsequently Afrocentrism and Quilombism, which is a version of Pan-Africanism he created himself, has not prevented this diaspora intellectual from thinking about emancipation from the standpoint of the Latin American continent and Brazil more specifically. The perspective that slavery never ended, a leitmotiv of the contemporary Black movement in Brazil and of which Nascimento is a founding figure, allows a parallel to be drawn between the struggles of the Black movement and those of the contemporary anti-slavery movement.