Internationalization and afro-diasporic dialogues: transatlantic experiences in the teacher education of young black brazilians in Mozambique

Abstract

This paper is an experience report whose main objective is to understand how internationalization experiences in Mozambique contribute to the teacher education of young Black Brazilians and to the strengthening of Afro-diasporic dialogues between Brazil and Mozambique. This experience, made possible by policies such as the Abdias Nascimento Program (CAPES), which aim to democratize mobility and strengthen South-South cooperation, is seen as the materialization of a dream historically denied to Black bodies. The methodology used was the experience report itself, complemented by extensive fieldwork and participant observation, detailing activities at the Pedagogical University of Maputo (UPM) and the cultural immersion that included meetings with the writer Paulina Chiziane and participation in the Gwaza Muthini festival. These experiences broadened the understanding of Black cultural diversity and served as a refusal of “epistemicide” and as a path to overcoming coloniality. The most important conclusion is that internationalizing higher education also means adopting an Afrocentric perspective, allowing ways of being and knowing to meet without hierarchies, thus consolidating the struggle for anti-racist and decolonial curricula and universities.