Souza, Ana SantanaFreire, Maria Marcela2016-06-082021-10-132016-06-082021-10-132016-05-12FREIRE, Maria Marcela. A Tradição oral africana e afrodescentente na escola : possibilidades pedagógicas em poemas de Odete Semedo e Conceição Evaristo. 2016. 72f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso ( Especialização em História e Cultura Africana e Afro-brasileira). Departamento de História do CERES - Campus de Caicó, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Caicó, 2016.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/44293This article is the result of an investigation into some pedagogical possibilities of addressing the African and Afro-descendant culture in school, focusing on the oral tradition of storytelling nature broadcast by poetry. The study had as object poems Odete Semedo, Guinea Bissau and Conceição Evaristo, Brazil. The research was literature, as poems were used already published African and african-brazilian author, and therefore a qualitative approach, ie, the selected poems were used as a source of data, interpretation and attribution of meaning. The results showed that the narrative element and with it the role of oral tradition is very present in the poems that were analyzed, showing the living tradition in the poems of Odete Semedo and the continuation of this, current and transformative way, the poems of Conceição Evaristo. The analysis of poems, supported by authors such as armored catfish (1984); BENJAMIN (1994), Vansina (2010); BONVINI (2001), HALL (2006), among others, showed pedagogical elements for use of literature in the classroom as an instrument of knowledge of history and African culture and african-Brazilian.openAccessTradição oralLiteratura africana e afro-brasileiraEnsinoOral traditionAfrican and african-brazilian literatureTeachingpostGraduateThesis