Quilombo Country

by Sokari on August 31, 2008

in African Diaspora, African History, Film

For those of you living in New York you may wish to catch this film….

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Quilombo Country,” a documentary film shot in digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means “encampment.” As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.

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