Kumesa li · Start here
Two ways into the record
Badiu Nation is a living cultural history and a place for our own research. Choose the route that matches what you came to find; both lead back to Badiu people, memory, language, and lineage.
Konxe nos stória
Learn the Badiu story
A guided sequence for readers encountering the project for the first time.
- 01Begin with the history
Place Santiago inside the history of West Africa, Atlantic slavery, resistance, and independence.
- 02Listen to the language
See how Manding, Wolof, Temne, and other African languages remain present in Kriolu.
- 03Meet the living culture
Read batuku, funaná, tabanka, foodways, and mutual aid as a connected cultural record.
- 04Follow the lineages
Begin with the project’s own Y-chromosome analysis, then explore the wider genetic picture.
Piskiza un família, lugar ô asuntu
Research a family, place, or topic
A practical route through family memory, places, records, and lineages.
- 01Fix the place
Start with the concelho, parish, village, and the spellings used for each.
- 02Find the record set
Identify parish registers, voyage records, correspondence, census material, maps, and their repositories.
- 03Join records to memory
Work across names, dates, godparents, oral lineage, migration, and paternal or maternal evidence.
- 04About this archive
See how Badiu knowledge, project research, records, and outside scholarship are brought together.
What this archive brings together
Badiu knowledge carried through family, place, language, music, and community memory.
Project research produced from within the archive, including the Y-chromosome analysis.
Records that can reconnect names, places, dates, and movements—even when colonial records must be read against their own bias.
Outside scholarship used where it helps, questioned where it narrows or misunderstands Badiu life.