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Born in Boa Vista, Roraima, Eliakin Rufino is a poet, singer, writer, philosophy professor, cultural producer and journalist. He is one of the members of the Roraimeira movement – an Amazonian cultural expression considered by social scientists as one of the greatest exponents in the construction of Roraimense identity. Eliakin is an artist of the word!

“A lot is said about the place of speech. I, in addition to being a place of speech, have the speech of the place. The Amazon is my house, my home, my origin, my ancestors and ancestors. There is still no listening to the Amazon and we are still living this attempt to continue to colonize it”