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consider that of despair, agony and suffering imposed by starvation. The secular procession of “ os flagelados do vento leste ” who wander through dry nature and finally witness the marginal trajectory that leads to the formation of Portonovense society. First, as a natural harbour through which enslaved people were transported from the African continent towards Europe or the New World, Porto dos Escraveiros . Second, as fishermen and small traders’ village, and at a time when charcoal was widely used while kerosene was considered a “luxury item”, Porto dos Carvoeiros . And finally, the contemporary city of Porto Novo, the current stage of the most disputed pilgrimage festivity in the country, the Colá Son Jon festivity (LOPES, 2017). Provider of young migrant labour to European countries, especially Portugal, Italy, and Luxembourg. In turn, Kola San Jon de Cova da Moura festivity, identified as a performative practice involving percussion, vocalization, dance, and the use of artifacts, is constituted through a political approach to tradition in a transnational dimension. The heterogeneity of the neighbourhood’s population proves that the adherence of various flags to the procession gives legitimacy to the festivity as a performative arena, taking into account linguistic, musical and bodily aspects, as well as the exercise of a cultural identity as a process. A resilient cultural identity in process. Kola San Jon 's festivity reminds us of both the cycles of starvation and death, compensated by periods of lesser scarcity and extremely rare moments of abundance; and the painful dialectic of a population that, facing all the evils of retreatants, in the exodus, ended up in an arid region that leads to a port. 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