Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Fomos trasido pro Brasil minha familia separou
minha mae ela foi vendida pra fazenda de um senhor
o meu pai morreu no tronco no chicote do feitor
meu irmao nao tem orelhas
porque o feitor arrancou
na mente trago tristeza e no corpo muita dor
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
mas olha um dia pro quilombo eu fugi
com muita luta e muita garra
mim tornei um guerreiro de Zumbi
ao passar do tempo pra fazenda retornei
soltei todos os escravos e a senzala eu queimei
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
A liberdade não tava escrito em papel
nem foi dado por princesa cujo nome Isabel
a liberdade foi feito com sangue e muita dor
muitas lutas e batalhas foi o que nos libertou
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Sou guerreiro do quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
Eu sou nego dos Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
We were brought to Brasil my family was separated
my mother she was sold to a farm of a landlord
My father died at the trunk by the whip of the supervisor
My brother has no ears
because the supervisor ripped them off
The spirit carries sadness and the body pain
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
but look one day I escaped to the quilombo
with a lot of fights and claws
I turned into a warrior of Zumbi
While time passed by I returned to the farm
I freed all the slaves and burned down the slavehouse
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Freedom is not written on paper
Nor is it done by a princess named Isabel
Freedom was accomplished with blood and a lot of pain.
It were lots of fights and battles that liberated us
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
I am a warrior of the quilombo Quilombola
lelele ô
I am a guy from Bantos de Angola
Nego Nago
Did you know?
Angola
- Angola is the West-Central African nation that serves as the primary ancestral and cultural birthplace of the rhythms, movements, and spiritual roots of capoeira.
- During the transatlantic slave trade, millions of people were forcibly taken from this region to Brazil, bringing with them rich martial traditions like the combat dance N'golo.
- The country's deep historical connection is permanently embedded in the art through Capoeira Angola, the traditional style dedicated to preserving these original roots.
- The name is universally celebrated in the roda through countless traditional songs that invoke Angola as a sacred land of ancestors, memory, and profound longing.
- The primary instrument of the art, the berimbau, is directly tied to Angolan musical heritage, evolving from traditional bow instruments like the mbulumbumba.
- Today, capoeiristas view the nation as a ultimate cultural touchstone, representing the unbreakable bond between African resistance and Brazilian identity.
Quilombo
- A quilombo was a self-governing, fortified community established deep in the Brazilian wilderness by escaped slaves, indigenous peoples, and marginalized groups seeking absolute freedom.
- These hidden settlements functioned as powerful, independent mini-states that sustained themselves through agriculture, trade, metallurgy, and highly sophisticated defensive warfare.
- Within these communities, the mixing of diverse African martial traditions and survival strategies directly laid the physical and cultural groundwork for capoeira.
- They served as essential sanctuaries for the preservation of forbidden African spiritual practices, music, languages, and ancestral rhythms away from colonial control.
- The most massive federation, Quilombo dos Palmares, resisted decades of military assaults from European superpowers before its capital finally fell in 1694.
- Today, the concept is celebrated in countless traditional songs as the ultimate symbol of black sovereignty, collective resistance, and the ancestral birthplace of the art.
Zumbi
- Zumbi (1655–1695) was the legendary last leader of the Quilombo dos Palmares, a massive self-governing kingdom of escaped slaves in northeastern Brazil.
- Born free within the quilombo, he was captured as a young child, given to a Portuguese priest, and baptized, but later escaped at age fifteen to return home.
- He rose to power as a brilliant military strategist and fiercely rejected a peace treaty with the Portuguese crown that would have kept newly escaped slaves shackled.
- Under his command, the quilombo resisted decades of military assaults, using dense jungle guerrilla warfare tactics that closely shaped the early development of capoeira.
- His fortified capital fell in 1694 after a massive artillery siege, and Zumbi was eventually betrayed, captured, and executed by colonial forces on November 20.
- Today, he is immortalized as a supreme symbol of Afro-Brazilian freedom, and his death date is celebrated nationwide as Black Consciousness Day.