ZUMBI FESTIVAL 2005 STUDY TOUR TO BRAZIL

ZUMBI FESTIVAL

2005 STUDY TOUR TO BRAZIL

Visiting Rio de Janeiro, Salvador Da Bahia,
Maceio, and Uniao da Palmares

Zumbi

INVITATION

Join us on a journey to Brazil to join in the celebration of the Zumbi Festival in Uniao dos Palmares.

NOVEMBER 11 - 22, 2005

DR. RUNOKO RASHIDI
World Renowned Historian, Public Lecturer, and Research Specialist
(Click to read bio of Professor Rashidi)

Uniao dos Palmares lies thirty miles from the Alagoas state capital of Maceio. It was here, in an area called Serra de Barriga that Zumbi, a fugitive slave, organized an independent village comprised of Black men and women who escaped from slavery. These free Republics were called quilombos. The Quilombo of Palmares, was the largest and lasted the longest, approximately 100 years from 1600 to 1695. The total population of Palmares reached 20,000 runaway slaves (almost 15% of Brazil's population at that time. One of the most famous leaders of Palmares was Zumbi who was born in 1655 in one of the villages of Palmares. He became a great leader by having overcome ordeals and not "whitening" himself. Courageous, with the capacity to organize and command, he became a myth among African Brazilians--not a hidden myth, but one revealed. Zumbi means: the force and spirit of the present. The monument to Zumbi, in Zumbia National Park, created in his honor, is the focal point for the Zumbi Celebrations, the commemorations held every November 20th, the date of his death. This date has now become National Black Consciousness Day in Brazil.
You will also experience Bahia's rich and diversified folklore, thanks to the strong influence of African culture. Coupled with your cultural experiences in Bahia, you will enjoy the fun, sun, and joie de vivre of Rio, "the Marvelous City."

Monument to Zumbi

$2199.00
(from Miami)

Plus tips and taxes
(Add-on fares are available from other US Cities)

Tour Planned and operated by:

CONSOLIDATED TOURS ORGANIZATION, INC

1675 Virginia Avenue, Suite 200
Atlanta, Georgia 30337-2845
Tel: 404-767-2727
Fax: 404-766-4520

Email: CTOINC@aol.com

Runoko Rashidi
(210) 337-4405
email: Runoko@yahoo.com

*Prices subject to change until paid in full for air and land
Rate is based on double occupancy and are per person
Call for single room supplement

Dr. Runoko Rashidi is an historian, research specialist and world traveler.
He has visited Egypt a number of times and has traveled on every continent save Antarctica and has previously
led tours to Aboriginal Australia, India, Southeast Asia, and the Fiji Islands. He has worked extensively with Dr. Ivan
Van Sertima and is the author of African Classical Civilizations and the editor of African Presence in Early Asia.

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