"Brazil’s quilombola communities today
are made up of the descendants of the African slaves who originally founded them," the Inter Press Service's Mario Osava writes. "Similar settlements were established throughout the Americas
in regions colonised by Europeans.
"The greatest threat currently faced by these communities in Brazil is
related to land ownership issues.
"In the Ribeira Valley, there have been at least 59 quilombola communities
identified, but only 15 have been formally recognised as such, and of these, only six have been granted land ownership deeds.
And even in the latter, community members are still waiting for the eviction of 'third parties' -- non-Afro-Brazilians
who have occupied parts of quilombola territories and must now be compensated by the government before they will leave."
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