Black people make up the majority in Brazil 🇧🇷. Over half of the nation’s 215 million inhabitants; 56 percent or about 120 million people are Afro-Brazilian, making the country home to the largest Black population in the Americas.

Brazil’s African heritage goes back to colonial times, when the Portuguese who were the first Europeans to settle in Brazil brought several million Enslaved Africans to Brazil to work on plantations. Despite repression and restrictions, Brazil’s Enslaved Africans succeeded in preserving much of their African cultural traditions

Afro-Brazilians contribute to Brazilian culture in many, many ways; dance, music, religion, cuisine and language. This influence is seen all over the country, in some states, such as Bahia, Maranhão, Pernambuco,Alagoas, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul.