INTERNATIONAL CAPOEIRA ANGOLA FOUNDATION
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Mission Statement
Our mission is to cultivate, preserve, and grow the Afro-Brazilian cultural art Capoeira Angola. We aim to connect people across generations and ethnicities through the traditional art forms of music, dance, and food, to strengthen our community and uplift spirits
About This Cause
In 1995, Mestre Cobra Mansa together with Mestre Valmir Damasceno and Mestre Jurandir Nascimento founded the International Capoeira Angola Foundation to preserve, promote, and research Capoeira Angola. The mission is supported by a dedicated community that maintains a school in the Howard University and Shaw neighborhood of Washington DC. Hosting yearly conferences and countless events that diffuse awareness for the rich history of capoeira and Afro-Brazilian culture, FICA DC remains central to a worldwide movement connecting practitioners across the US, Brazil, Costa Rica, France, Mozambique, and Russia among other nations. Capoeira Angola has its roots in Bantu traditions, carried to Brazil by enslaved Africans. In the captivity of slavery-era Brazil, Africans disguised capoeiras power as a joking and playful acrobatic dance. In the remote maroon societies, quilombos, the practice was cultivated as a form of resistance and self-defense.