South America - Editor - 23 July 2008
Boa Morte Festival in Brazil
Starting on the Friday closest to 15 August each year, the charming town of Cachoeira on the banks of the Paraguacu River in Bahia, Brazil, hosts the three-day Boa Morte Festival. The cane-growing area around Salvador, Bahia, was the destination of countless numbers of black slaves that had been brought from Africa. It was during this time that the town of Cachoeira was built, and it is here, during the Boa Morte Festival, that female descendants of African slaves remember the past, while savoring their freedom.
