Nigeria-Brazil, Brazil-Nigeria. The Shitta Bey Mosque

This particular piece of architecture, aside from being an object of obvious and enthralling artistic interest per se, is an eloquent testament to the presence as well as the proactive cultural participation of the so-called Aguda1 people in the Nigerian state. Principally, those were a community of, mostly, Afro-Brazilians and Afro-Cubans, most commonly the descendants…