CFP: Workshop on Refugees and African History: Seeking Refuge and Creating Narrative in the International Refugee Regime
Deadline for Workshop Abstracts: Tuesday, August 1, 2017
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.
Resources
Visit the following pages to find professional, research and teaching resources for scholars of Lusophone Africa:
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Research Resources: Archives & Research Libraries, Digital Archives & Databases, Dissertations/Theses in Progress, Online News Media
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Discussions
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CFP: IV Conferencia Internacional do Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, 29 e 30 de Novembro de 2017
IV Conferencia internacional do CEA - UEM, Maputo . Chamada de comunicações
ANN: Jantar-Tertúlia COLONIALISMO PORTUGUÊS, Associação Cabo-verdeana Lisboa, 8 de julho de 2017, 19h00
Dia 8 de Julho, às 19h, na Associação Caboverdeana Lisboa: «Colonialismo português: excepção ou barbárie?»
Com Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, investigador do CES- Universidade d
TOC: do Carmo Piçarra and Castro, eds., (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire
Maria do Carmo Piçarra and Teresa Castro, eds., (Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire (Peter Lang, 2017), series: Reconfiguring Identities in the Portuguese-Speaking World
https://www.peterlang.com/view/product/79297
– Lúcia Nagib: Foreword
– Maria do Carmo Piçarra/Teresa Castro: Colonial Reflections, Post-Colonial Refractions: Film and the Moving Image in the Portuguese (Post-)Colonial Situation
Reviews
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.
Reviewer:
Marina Temudo
Temudo on Davidson, 'Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural 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
Reviewer:
Drew Thompson
Thompson on Braga-Pinto and Mendonça and Fátima, 'João Albasini e as luzes de Nwandzengele: Jornalismo e política em Moçambique, 1908-1922'
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
Reviewer:
Nuno Vidal
Vidal on Pearce, 'Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola, 1975-2002'
Justin Pearce. Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola, 1975-2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 204 pp. $103.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-107-07964-9.
Reviewed by Nuno Vidal (Centro de Estudos Internacionais - ISCTE-IUL)
Published on H-Luso-Africa (February, 2017)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik
Reviewer:
Didier Péclard
Péclard on Soares de Oliveira, 'Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War'
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira. Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War. London: Hurst Publishers, 2015. 320 pp. $34.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-025139-0.
Reviewed by Didier Péclard (Global Studies Institute, Université de Genève)
Published on H-Luso-Africa (December, 2016)
Commissioned by Philip J. Havik