w. Freire's epic poem Recife Forever By Urariano Mota Born in Recife on September 19, 1921, Paulo Freire overcame the contradiction of being from Recife and simultaneously a citizen of the world-at-large. Far from Pernambuco, he reinvented himself as a man without borders by the strength of his work as a revolutionary philosopher and teacher only to suffer a second, posthumous exile in the Bolsonaro regime. Once considered the “Patron of Brazilian Education,” he has again bec