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.
RESUMO Por meio de referenciais africanos e afrodiaspóricos, propõe-se o exercício de pensar as crianças negras e suas performances. A partir de estudos sobre a cosmologia bantu-kongo, busca-se uma aproximação com a infância bakongo para dar a compreender as performances da infância negra brasileira, relacionando-as com a preservação de valores civilizatórios africanos. Conclui-se, à luz do conceito ancestralidade e da noção cosmológica de tempo circular, que as crianças negras brasileiras, por intermédio da performance, são capazes de unir passado e presente, ancestral e vivo, reeditando memórias e mantendo vivos valores civilizatórios afro-brasileiros.
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