Welcome to H-Luso-Africa, a network initiated by the Lusophone African Studies Organization (LASO).
H-Luso-Africa aims to compile resources, host discussions and publish reviews that are relevant to scholars with interests in Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São-Tomé and Príncipe.
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Encontros e desencontros de lá e de cá do Atlântico: mulheres africanas e afro-brasileiras em perspectiva de gênero
Patrícia Godinho Gomes e Cláudio Alves Furtado (Orgs.) Salvador, EDUFBA, 2017, 308 p.
Prezados,
Com imensa satisfação e alegria, informamos a publicação da Edição 54 da Revista Afro-Ásia. A capa mostra a imagem do Largo Dois de Julho. O sobrado, à esquerda, é a atual sede do Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais, com fachada reformada. Se trata de um postal da Litho-Typ. Almeida, datado de agosto de 1908.
Dear all,
I have an almost-complete archive of Facts & Reports, press clippings from Southern Africa, mainly in English and French, from 1970 to 1900 - 2 file boxes. And I am trying to reduce the number of file boxes in my basement!
CADERNO DE ESTUDOS AFRICANOS N.º 32, 2016
Dossiê: Desporto e Lazer em África - Entre os Vínculos do Passado e as Dinâmicas do Presente
Organizadores: Marcelo Bittencourt, Paulo Jorge Fernandes, Victor Andrade de Melo
Reviews are commissioned by H-Luso-Africa reviews editor Philip Havik.
More information on becoming a reviewer or submitting a book for review on H-Net can be found here.
Chris Alden, Sérgio Chichava, eds. China and Mozambique: From Comrades to Capitalists. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2014. 256 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-920196-94-3.
Reviewed by Joseph Hanlon (The Open University (UK); London School of Economics (UK))
Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2017)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Thiago Henrique Motta. Portugueses e Muçulmanos na Senegâmbia: História e Representações do Islã na África (c. 1570-1625). Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2016. 339 pp. BRL 58.00, ISBN 978-85-550-7266-6.
Reviewed by Toby O. Green (Department of History/Kings College London)
Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2017)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Representations of Islam in West Africa
Joanna Davidson. Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa. Issues of Globalization: Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. 264 pp. $19.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-935868-7.
Reviewed by Marina Temudo (University of Lisbon)
Published on H-Luso-Africa (May, 2017)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
César Braga-Pinto, Mendonça, Fátima. João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzengele: Jornalismo e política em Moçambique, 1908-1922. Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2014. Illustrations. 414 pp. $34.00 (paper).
Reviewed by Drew Thompson (Bard College)
Published on H-Luso-Africa (March, 2017)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Social Commentary, Political Activism, and the Origins of the Press in Mozambique
