Allan Santos da Rosa holds a master’s degree and a doctorate in culture and education from USP. He is a fiction writer, a historian, and a capoeira practitioner of the Angola lineage. As a playwright, Santos da Rosa has written award-winning pieces for theatre companies in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Minas Gerais. As an independent educator, he has organised educational courses in Afro-Atlantic aesthetics and politics for over a decade. He has held lectures, recitations, workshops, and debates in rodas (the circular capoeira formation), fairs, universities, libraries, and community centres in Cuba, Mozambique, the United States of America, Mexico, Colombia, Bolivia, and Argentina. He is the author of the following books Balanço Afiado – Estética e Política em Jorge Ben (Sharp Swing – Aesthetics and Politics in Jorge Bem, 2023), Ninhos e Revides - Estéticas e Fundamentos, Lábias e Jogo de Corpo (Nests and fightbacks – Aesthetics and Fundamentals , Trickster Mouths and Body Games, 2022), Águas de Homens Pretos - Imaginário, Cisma e Cotidiano Ancestral (Waters of Black Men - Imaginary, Everyday Life and Ancestrality in São Paulo, 2021), Pedagoginga, Autonomia e Mocambagem (Pedagoginga, Autonomy e Marroonage – On Black Culture and Popular Education, 2 ed., 2019), Zumbi Assombra Quem? (Zumbi Haunts Who? 2017) and Reza de Mãe (Mother's Pray, 2016), among others.
