# Cultural background and diversity: N’golo and Capoeira in play

## TL;DR

This paper explores how Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian cultural practice, promotes cultural diversity and inclusion in education and daily life.

## Contribution

The study highlights the African roots of Capoeira as a tool for promoting inclusion and cultural diversity in physical education.

## Key findings

- Capoeira's African roots are crucial for understanding its role in promoting inclusion.
- The practice fosters cultural diversity in educational and daily life contexts.
- Historical analysis of N’golo drawings supports the cultural significance of Capoeira.

## Abstract

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian polysemic cultural manifestation, commonly known as fight-game formerly practiced only in streets and restricted environments and currently in training centers, gyms, and mainly in schools. The main question is: how this practice that was marginalized, prohibited by the Brazilian Penal Code in the past, can today promote an improvement in interpersonal relationships and cultural diversity among people?

This is a documentary research characterized by a historical approach, based on capoeira-body to understand the body narrative. Sources: analysis of N’golo drawings by the artist Neves e Sousa in Galeria Verney (Portugal).

Categories established a priori: 1. characterization of body practice, 2. musicality and 3. body elements. In short, we argue that understanding of the African roots in Capoeira is an instrumental for promoting inclusion and representation, highlighting Cultural Diversity in Physical Education as well in people daily life, in different practical contexts of teaching, all over the world.