Cândido, João, 264–266

Candomblé, 125n74, 144, 148, 150, 183, 234, 243, 246–248, 252, 255, 266–267, 275n98, 275n102, 275n104, 276n110, 276n116, 277n122, 277n125, 291, 326, 365, 384, 391–392, 394, 409, 416

Cape Verde, 92

The Captains' Tree, 183

Cardoso, Fernando Henrique, 36, 216, 229

Carnival, 71, 109, 208, 232–235, 239–241, 243–244, 252, 255–256, 261, 266–267

Casa das Minas, 247, 318

Casa-grande & Senzala, 35, 214

Catholic brotherhoods, 38–39, 100, 109, 232, 259

Catholic Church, 82, 96, 109, 146, 151, 155, 190

Catholic missionaries, 155, 190

Catholicism, 10, 92, 108, 115, 151, 155, 214, 321, 330–331, 365, 414

Catholics, 107, 366

Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, 252

Césaire, Aimé, 56–57, 147–148, 218

Chica da Silva, 226, 236–237, 242–243, 266

Chico Rei, 237–238, 242–243, 247, 275n106

Christians, 154, 192

civil rights, 12, 20, 50–55, 70, 130, 207, 218, 229, 266–267, 411–412

Cobra Verde (film), 313

coffee, 102, 209, 211–212, 265–266

Cold War, 20, 61–62, 412

collaborator(s), 10, 114, 116, 156, 179, 314, 327

collective memory, 115, 280, 378

commemoration, 23, 38, 51, 58, 67, 74, 78, 81, 129, 142–143, 221, 229, 232, 256, 288, 300, 354, 413, 415

Conspiracy of the Tailors, 261–262

Constitution of 1988 (Brazil), 222, 226, 228, 268

Cotonou, 4, 11, 74–75, 111–114, 131, 135, 137, 146–147, 152–153, 201n73, 288, 290, 292, 320, 336n46, 336n48, 339n75, 341n85, 353, 360, 372

Cruz, Clément da, 134, 197

Cuba, 102, 134, 137–138, 144, 404n47

cultural assertion, 13, 56, 71, 76, 82, 151, 207–208, 217, 222, 234, 255, 261, 266, 374, 395, 411

Curtin, Philip D., 21–23, 26, 36, 60

Da Silva Museum (Musée da Silva des Arts et de la Culture), 349, 378–382, 395–396, 399n1, 409, 415

Dagoun, 161–165

Dahomey (French colony), 5, 114, 117, 130, 134, 155, 366, 375, 405n55

Dahomey, Kingdom of, 4–5, 9–10, 91, 98–100, 106–107, 111, 119, 130, 133, 136–138, 143–145, 152, 156–158, 164–165, 168, 173, 175, 190, 201n72, 245–246, 275n105, 279, 283–287, 289–290, 299–300, 302, 306–309, 315–321, 324, 327, 330–331, 337n57, 339n75, 343n95, 343n96, 345n122, 355, 364–365, 367, 390, 394, 412, 414