Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria are home to a group of communities who identify as Brazilian descendants. Formed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by individuals who relocated from Brazil to West Africa, they have developed a distinct Afro-Brazilian culture that they continue to cherish and celebrate. This chapter documents the relatively recent arrival of Brazilian capoeira in these countries—beginning at the turn of the twenty-first century—with the goal of discussing how these communities understand and relate to quintessential and globalized symbols of Afro-Brazilian culture such as capoeira. Given this cultural connection, one might expect the Brazilians descendants in West Africa to embrace capoeira with enthusiasm. However, this has not been the case. Why? Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in four West African countries between 2015 and 2025, this chapter examines the aesthetic, embodied, linguistic, and historical factors that may explain the apparent disinterest in capoeira among West African returnee-descendants. In doing so, it problematizes narratives of capoeira’s “return” to Africa, challenging the assumption that the art’s African diasporic roots resonate universally with communities across the continent.