Uma viagem sobre duas rodas: das ruas de Angola para a sala de aula

Abstract

A Bicicleta que tinha bigodes (The bicycle that had moustache), a novel by the angolan writer Ndalu de Almeida, better known as Ondjaki, tells the story of the city of Luanda in the post-war period through childhood memories of street children. This story serves as a background for the realization of the basic sequence – according to Cosson's (2014) conceptions – developedwith the students of the 7th grade of elementary school in the municipal public school of Serra Caiada (RN). This paper aims to investigate how the african literature of portuguese language, more specifically the angolan, can contribute to the acceptance and appreciation of the history and the afro-brazilian and african culture by the students. The problematic was chosen based on the fact that although having already passed more than a decade of the promulgation of Law 10.639 / 2003, which establishes the teaching of afro-brazilian and african history and culture in all schools, only few institutions have this law actually implemented. The methodology used in this paper is qualified as action research – according to the propositions of Thiollent (2011) – considering that this one is characterized by the participation of the students involved in the research and, mainly, by solving a problem in a collaborative way. As theoretical approach, we use the concepts of Cavalleiro (2001), Munanga (2005 and 2012) and Praxedes and Praxedes (2014), authors who discuss, among other things, the importance of education for ethnic-racial relations and the implementation of the Law 10.639 / 2003. Its relevance is to discuss this important issue for teachers and students and to cooperate with the reflections in the classroom, in an inclusive perspective, minimizing the effects of racism, discrimination and prejudice in school.