Brazil: Afro-Brazilians Trace African Origins

A documentary film project called “DNA Africa” is reconnecting Brazil’s Afro-Descendants with their African roots through DNA tracing. Half of the 10 million African slaves shipped across the Atlantic Ocean ended up in Brazil. Today over 100 million Brazilians are black or of mixed race. Around 150 of them, mainly black activists, will figure in the documentaries more than a century after slavery officially ended in the country. The tests are being done in Washington by a country called African Ancestry, with a database of over 30,000 indigenous Africans. teleSUR