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figure io. African Brazil (Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries).
Source: Anjos, 2014b  
Another structural point, also relating to the country's decision-making sector, concerns the establishment of the conditions necessary to implementing a more realistic census that better portrays Brazil's ethnic diversity. This subject is complex, since it means changing population measurement methods, which explains why we do not yet possess the evidence to produce an official record of 'African Brazil'. Should this be given political priority, we believe that it would still be possible to review the methodological procedures for the next official census, which could incorporate the advances already made in the hundreds of ethnic census experiments already carried out by teachers and directors in the nation's schools.  
The issue of Brazil's quilombo communities must cease to be handled through one-off, sporadic actions and hampered by conflicts of institutional responsibilities - a significant and seemingly persistent feature of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The current model for managing the demands of the quilombolas in the country is divisive and could still be changed. Localized victories reflect neither an action plan with principles and parameters in the short or medium term, nor a perspective of strengthening the now centuries-old quilombola struggle.  
It is a widespread premise that information alone does not equate to knowledge. However, with the help of science and technology, information can show us that we are able to collaborate in modifying isolated and superficial policies in order to support the adoption of concrete measures to change the urgent situation of the populations of 'African Brazil'.