Esperan？as de boaventuras: constru？？es da áfrica e africanismos na Bahia (1887-1910)

this article is about african issues exposed in bahia during the last years of the 19th century and the first of the 20th. mainly analyzing parades of two carnival clubs founded by african descendents - the pandegos d'áfrica and the embaixada africana - the intention here is to discuss references which helped forming different images of africa and bahia at that time. the re-creations about africa and africans were important to delimit social-racial places and here they are analyzed as political exercises of identity construction done by the african descendants community itself during the period immediately after the abolition.