Mukua is the fruit of an African tree, the baobab.
The baobab tree, like many other elements of African civilization, symbolizes African wisdom and ancestry.
The Mukua Program uses this symbolism to present a proposal for "Afro Involvement" to the Quilombola communities of the Lower Amazon in the Oriximiná region.
The project proposes a program divided into four distinct lines, but interconnected with Tambor as a fundamental element of the project:
Workshop for building drums,
Percussion Workshop,
Afro Aesthetics Workshop
Pedagogical games.
Present in the most diverse manifestations of faith, music, and dance, the drums, once persecuted, continue to have their culture at risk under the capitalist model of society and are a symbol of resistance. But there is another characteristic of the drum, perhaps not so obvious: the drum communicates. Played ancestrally to announce a death, a party, a birth; played in Brazil to guide a black person fleeing slavery to the nearest quilombo.
The drum is the first internet. Something happens when you play the drum. It was by getting Kofi Annan, then UN Secretary-General, to play the atabaque drum that Gilberto Gil, then a minister, made a speech for peace, showed everyone the strategic importance of the Ministry of Culture, and reminded the diplomat of his roots.
Working beyond "how" to "why" build an instrument, where the approach to the historical and cultural content surrounding each instrument contributes to the formation of a collective consciousness based on the appreciation of human, cultural, and racial aspects, the intangible heritage of our country, in addition to the possibility of playing an instrument, the work of building instruments can also enable the pursuit of a profession, which, through the continuous search for training and information, can become a source of income through the direct sale of instruments or the transmission of knowledge acquired in cultural workshops.