Brazil have the largest black population outside Africa. 100 millions of black population according the census. Most of what the world knows as Brazilian culture, and what Brazil projects in international performance, is of African origin. The predominantly culture is African.

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That title belongs to "Haiti". The most African country outside Africa.

All thanks to booming slave trade, in that era... Many blacks stayed back, after freedom and multiplied there.

Somebody here has already mentioned Haiti...

I totally agree with that. It has to be Haiti.

Haiti is a replica of Africa in the new world. Brazil doesn't even come close enough in my opinion.

The next candidate should be Brazil or Cuba.

**but seriously OP, does Brazil really have up to a million blacks? Present your source.

One might say Haiti, probably because Haiti is an all-Black country, in contrast to Brazil which has other racial groups.

However, in terms of sheer number there are still more black people in Brazil than in Haiti.

And although Haiti still has its voodoo, no country outside Africa has successfully retained a vibrant African religion and culture like Brazil, where the orixas (orishas) are alive and kicking, and where a semblance of the Yoruba language, at least for liturgical purposes, have survived. I will even argue that in terms of maintaining ancestral religions, Brazil is even more African than many African countries.

mansakhalifa:
Somebody here has already mentioned Haiti...

I totally agree with that. It has to be Haiti.

Haiti is a replica of Africa in the new world. Brazil doesn't even come close enough in my opinion.

The next candidate should be Brazil or Cuba.

**but seriously OP, does Brazil really have up to a million blacks? Present your source.

According to the 2010 census, 15 million Brazilians identify as Black. That number is many times more, if we add people who are part-Black to that number (as they do in the US.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-15766840#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20time%2C%20non,2000%20to%2047.7%25%20last%20year.

RedboneSmith:
One might say Haiti, probably because Haiti is an all-Black country, in contrast to Brazil which has other racial groups.

However, in terms of sheer number there are still more black people in Brazil than in Haiti.

And although Haiti still has its voodoo, no country outside Africa has successfully retained a vibrant African religion and culture like Brazil, where the orixas (orishas) are alive and kicking, and where a semblance of the Yoruba language, at least for liturgical purposes, have survived. I will even argue that in terms of maintaining ancestral religions, Brazil is even more African than many African countries.

The OP is talking of similarities rather than numbers and similarities can range from looks to way of life and no country outside of Africa has that more than Haiti. When you see an average Haitian, you would think they're Africans unlike Brazilian blacks that come in different color tone.

Also, according to DNA testing, Haitians have the highest percentage of African blood than any country. It typically ranges from 97% to 100% unlike other countries that there blacks can have as low as 80% African ancestry.

RedboneSmith:



According to the 2010 census, 15 million Brazilians identify as Black. That number is many times more, if we add people who are part-Black to that number (as they do in the US.)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-15766840#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20time%2C%20non,2000%20to%2047.7%25%20last%20year.

The one drop rule does not apply in every country as they do in America. That's why Dominicans don't like being called Black. It could be brainwashing but that's just how they see themselves. if 15 million Brazilians say that they are black then that's the number of black people in Brazil. Mulatos don't really consider themselves black.

mansakhalifa:
Somebody here has already mentioned Haiti...

I totally agree with that. It has to be Haiti.

Haiti is a replica of Africa in the new world. Brazil doesn't even come close enough in my opinion.

The next candidate should be Brazil or Cuba.

**but seriously OP, does Brazil really have up to a million blacks? Present your source.

The proportion of Brazilians declaring themselves white was down from 53.7% in 2000, when Brazil's last census was held.
But the proportion of people declaring themselves black or mixed race has risen from 44.7% to 50.7%, making African-Brazilians the official majority for the first time.
"Among the hypotheses to explain this trend, one could highlight the valorisation of identity among Afro-descendants," Brazil's census board, the IBGE, said in its report.
According to the census, 7.6% of Brazilians said they were black, compared with 6.2% in 2000, and 43.1% said they were mixed race, up from 38.5%.
In 1872, when Brazil's first census was conducted, the population was split into just two groups: free people and slaves, who then represented 15% of the population.

The IBGE said that while its researchers had detected the trend about three years ago, the 2010 census was the first full nationwide study to recognise the phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEfwcKG5AKs

A History of Yoruba Religion In Brazil

I have read Brazil was predominately black until the end of the 1822s and possibly in the early 1823's before European immigration. Plus dark skinned people seem to dissapear just in time for the census every year in Brazil. First it was with the Indians , now the Blacks. Soon we will be taught in school that black Black Brazilians are extince or never even existed.