5 Burrinha is a popular folkloric festival that was never really practised by the Brazilian elites.  
And so we come to the third period important to understanding the Agudá identity in Benin, following redemocratization in 1989; since then, the memory of the experience of living in Brazil has given way to the memory of the achievements realized in Benin. In the same way that the first memory had the function of allowing the returnees to integrate into local society, the second also had a specific social function. It is the memory of their achievements - the contribution they have made to the development of western culture in the country - that the Agudás use to defend the legitimacy of their place in Beninese society today.  
Analysing these three stages in the construction of the Agudá ethnic identity in Benin allows us to understand how the Agudá established themselves as key players in the transition between traditional societies and the formation of a 'modern' state. In reality, the integration of the Africans who returned from slavery in Brazil, along with that of their descendants, as citizens with full rights, was initially possible because Beninese society as a whole was undergoing a process of development that was heading in the same direction as the culture they brought back with them. Moreover, the admission of these previously excluded individuals was absolutely necessary to make this process of development not only possible, but also more effective. First acting as intermediaries between traditional societies and western culture, they soon became the interpreters for this society and the colonial power. Mixed and intertwined with the traditional societies through marriage and still living in various different culture groups, the Agudás thus present themselves as one of the main players in the construction process of modern-day Benin.