THE NAGÔ PRIMER BY MESTRE DIDI
A BAHIAN BLACK EDUCATOR ARTIST
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.34019/2447-5246.2024.v29.44613Abstract
This article analyzes the production context of a Primer focused on teaching the Yoruba language to children and adults, created and written in the decade of 1960 by Deoscóredes Maxiliano dos Santos (1917-2013), better known as Mestre Didi, a prominent figure in the Bahian culture of the second half of the 20th-century. He was considered an Omo bibi, which in Yoruba means "well-born", within an extensive family linked to Bahian nagô-kêtu liturgical traditions for several generations. His maternal great-grandmother was Marcelina da Silva - Obá Tossi, the second priestess of Ilê Iyá Nassô Oká, also known as Casa Branca do Engenho Velho, founded in Salvador in the 1830s, one of the oldest communities of Bahian nineteenth-century Candomblé, which gave rise to two other ancient Nagô terreiros in Bahia: Gantois (1849) and Axé Opô Afonjá (1910). The essay seeks, from the perspective of social history, to approach the primer in its materiality as an artifact of the afro-brazilian culture and documentary source for the analysis of this religious fraternity as a school-community, in which the older generations, representing the living memory of knowledge, constituted the driving force of an ancestral pedagogy of knowledge circulation among generations.
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