“DJARAMA BUI LITERATURA!”:

Promoting African literature in Portuguese and Afro-Brazilian languages via WhatsApp in Bolama – Bijagós, Guinea-Bissau

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present a reflection on practices that use information and communication technologies (ICT) in educational processes as a strategic mechanism to overcome the difficulties of accessing works of and about African literature in Portuguese and Brazilian languages, notably in Guinea-Bissau. It considers the impact of the use of ICT in teaching and learning processes and highlights aspects of the literÁfricas project, which is configured as a source of information specialized in Africanities, dedicated to making visible, in open access on the internet, a collection of critical texts, interviews and videos about the literary system of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe. Shares the activity carried out in a training cycle at the Escola Superior de Educação – Unidade de Ensino Amílcar Cabral, located in the city of Bolama, in the Bijagós archipelago region – Guinea-Bissau, with Pedagogy undergraduates who produced episodes of a radio program, adapted for broadcasting via Whatsapp and YouTube, based on collective research, mainly in the online material of literÁfricas. The experience reported concludes that it is important to continue the work of populating the collection of the literÁfricas Project, given the contribution it offers to enrich and diversify the educational path of those interested in the literary systems of the five Portuguese-speaking countries on the African continent.