Alaafia of Oyo State visits largest African Afro-Brazilian museum
The Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, on Thursday visited the Museu Afro Brasil in São Paulo, Brazil, regarded as the largest museum of the African Diaspora in Latin America.
The museum houses more than 6,000 works of art, artefacts and historical objects documenting over five centuries of the cultural and historical contributions of people of African descent in Brazil.
In a statement issued in Ibadan by the Alaafin’s Director of Media and Publicity, Bode Durojaye, the monarch was accompanied on the visit by his Queen Consort, Ayaba Abiwunmi.
According to the statement, the Museu Afro Brasil, located within the Manuel da Nóbrega Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, was founded in 2004 by renowned Brazilian artist, curator and museum director Emanuel Araújo.
