The first woman to become a capoeira mestre in Brazil, and the current president of the Rio de Janeiro Capoeira Federation, speaks about the difficulties she had to overcome to reach her goals.
Fatima Colombiana (43) was born in Rio de Janeiro and had appreciated capoeira rodas since childhood, but did not practice the art because her mother thought it wasn’t for girls. As a teenager, she went to Belem do Para and in 1970 she started capoeira with Mestre Bezerra, the only mestre in the city. In 1975, she met Mestre Canjiquinha in Sao Paulo and went with him to Salvador. After 5 years of training, she became a mestra.
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