right to the city; urban space production; africanities; crossroads; ancestrality.

This work seeks to cross two areas: the Right to the City and the Africanities, starting with an epistemological retaking of the concept of the Right to the City (LEFEBVRE, [1968] 1991) in its French origins and later updates, both in academic and in other appropriations by the discourses of urban social movements, bringing as a field of research the black people’s practices and discourses in the city of Salvador.

By "Africanities" (PETIT, 2015) we mean the set of roots of Brazilian culture that have their origin in Africa and that are present in the daily practices and ways of life of black and non-black subjects to the present day. The possibility of building the city as a work of collective character, constituted of meaning, of use value, above the exchange value, precepts of the right to the Lefebvrean city, are systematically denied to the black populations, both from the point of view of access to land urban, and from the point of view of the possibility of appropriating and creating the city work from its cultural bases.

It is analyzed historically how some of these deletions have occurred since the resumption of the historical process of space production (LEFEBVRE, 2006) in Brazilian cities since the advent of colonization and aims to point out how these practices of African worldview survive, recreate and produce space these days.

As an empirical field, it was established an interlocution with the so-called narrators of Africanities, subjects who, from their own life trajectories and practices in the city, recreate spaces and establish territories of epistemological bases peculiar to Africanities, taking as reference principles such as ancestry and the enchantment.