9 Sep 2024

Here Now: Capoeira in Auckland

From Afternoons, 3:40 pm on 9 September 2024

With its origins in Angola and later in communities of enslaved in Brazil in the 1800s, the once-banned martial art of Capoeira has grown in popularity over the world in recent years. In Auckland, a recent Capoeira graduation ceremony drew hundreds from not just the Brazilian community. Kadambari Raghukumar went along.

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