Discursive Elaborations about PAN-African Negritude at the Colloquium ‘Negritude and Latin America’ in Dakar (1974): The Epistolary Communications between Clóvis Moura (Brazil), Manuzel Zapata Olivella (Colombia) and Nicomedes Santa Cruz (Peru).

Between the 7th and 14th of January 1974, the Colloquium 'Negritude and Latin America' took place in the city of Dakar, capital of Senegal, organized by several African and European intellectuals, with the prominence of the then Senegalese president Leopold Sédar Senghor at the head of the realization. The event was based on the application of the anti-colonial concept of negritude directed to the reality of black people in Latin America and brought several discussions and debates between Africa and America that gained prominence in newspaper pages and private letters exchanged between black intellectuals of the period. Thus, the objective of this production is to analyze the conceptual meanings of negritude raised by African intelligentsia during the Colloquium in 1974. To achieve this objective, were used as theoretical frameworks the New Latin American Intellectual History from Dominick LaCapra (2012) and Jorge Myers (2019), as well as methodologies specific to the field of Sociology and History for analyzing journalistic sources and exchanged epistles (BOUZINAC, 2016). The initial conclusions indicate that the Colloquium used the term negritude as a form of political communion between black leaders spread across Latin America, thus seeking to make African interlocutors a point of reference within the context of the search for a black identity. Another striking conclusion perceived by the event was the emergence of communications between anti-colonial leaders spread across the American continent who had no interactions until the Colloquium took place.