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Nêgo Bispo (1959–2023), born Antônio Bispo dos Santos, was a Brazilian thinker, writer, educator and quilombola intellectual whose work challenged colonial ways of understanding the world. Rooted in the knowledge traditions of quilombola communities – Afro-Brazilian communities formed by descendants of escaped enslaved people – he developed a philosophy grounded in reciprocity, ancestry, land, and collective life. Although widely recognised as one of Brazil’s most important contemporary intellectuals, Bispo often described himself not as a thinker but as a translator ...
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