Uma velha África: Heródoto e o ensino de História da África

Abstract

In 2003, law nr. 10.639 established new directives for national Brazilian education, advocating the inclusion of the teaching of African history and Afro-Brazilian and African culture on curriculums. This proposal, made by Brazil’s Ministry of Education, has a defficency: Africa and the history of its inhabitants is presented in isolation from the rest of the world. Following Ana Mónica Lopes and Luiz Arnaut’s proposal, we present the teaching of ancient African history by analysing references to Africa made by Herodotus in his Historiae.