Knowledge, education, and situated writing of an African woman in diaspora

Abstract

This article is inspired by the construction of a doctoral thesis entitled “Bentana Fiu na Bida Teinha: returning the nomenclature and meanings of hunger and poverty to their creators, based on the paths and
experiences of the tabankas in present-day Guinea-Bissau”. Considering autoethnography as a means of integrating the journey of a young African woman since her physical return to the land, narrating the strength of African spirituality, the teachings of the land and her academic training in the Brazilian diaspora. Thus, it presents the blossoming of situated
writing by designating the harmony of the mind and the heart, in which the obedience of the hands that weave constitutes na achievement in the practice of the art of writing. In this process, the author expresses gratitude for the materialization of the orality in writing as a possibility
of enhancing the earth, the collective dimension and the spirits and the generous perspective of caring for all, everything and everyone. Understanding, accepting and making oneself available in the process of
continuity, of the responsibility of pursuing the recovery and maintenance of the knowledge of our territories-bodies.