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:

Professional Resources: Lusophone Studies Journals, Lusophone Studies Organisations, Lusophone Studies Research Centers
Research Resources: Archives & Research Libraries, Digital Archives & Databases, Dissertations/Theses in Progress, Online News Media
Teaching Resources: Syllabi collection

Please contact H-Luso-Africa web editor Rosa Williams with your suggestions of resources to include.

 

Discussions

We welcome contributions in English or Portuguese. Please log in if you are not automatically logged in. You will then be able to create a new post by clicking on the “start a discussion” button or reply to existing posts. For more details, see the H-Net Commons Quick Start Guide.

We regularly post lists of recent publications on Lusophone Africa. Please send news of your own publications to H-Luso-Africa editor Kathleen Sheldon.

Recent discussion posts also include: calls for papers/panels, event announcements, job notices, news items, obituaries and research queries.

You can search archived H-Luso-Africa discussion logs (May 2002–January 2014) here.

Discussion published by Michel Cahen on Friday, September 13, 2019

CFP: Mobilités contemporaines en lusotopie – Mobilidades contemporâneas na lusotopia – Contemporary mobilities in lusotopy

Appel à articles / Chamada para artigos / Call for papers

Lusotopie, 2020-2

https://brill.com/view/journals/luso/luso-overview.xml

Deadline for submission of abstracts: October 15, 2019

Mobilités contemporaines en lusotopie: Questionner les frontières (post)impériales

Mobilidades contemporâneas na lusotopia: Questionar as fronteiras (pós)imperiais

Contemporary mobilities in lusotopy: Questioning (post)imperial borders

Discussion published by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo on Thursday, September 12, 2019

CFP: Worlds of Social Policies: Local and global dimensions of change since 1945 (6-7 February 2020, Center for Social Studies, Lisbon, Portugal)

Call for Papers

Worlds of Social Policies: Local and global dimensions of change since 1945

(6-7 February 2020, Center for Social Studies, Lisbon, Portugal)

Submission deadline -- October 31, 2019

Organization: Research project Worlds of (Under)Development: processes and legacies of the Portuguese colonial empire in a comparative perspective (1945-1975), Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Keynotes: Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) and Joseph Hodge (West Virginia University)

Discussion published by Gerhard Seibert on Thursday, September 12, 2019

ANN: PROGRAMA PÓS-AFRO DA UFBA, SALVADOR, BAHIA: CHAMADA PÚBLICA INTERNACIONAL Nº 1/2019 CANDIDATURAS PARA VAGA DE PROFESSOR VISITANTE

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA
FACULDADE DE FILOSOFIA E CIÊNCIAS HUMANAS
PROGRAMA MULTIDISCIPLINAR DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM ESTUDOS ÉTNICOS E AFRICANOS
CHAMADA PÚBLICA INTERNACIONAL Nº 1/2019 CANDIDATURAS PARA VAGA DE PROFESSOR VISITANTE  

 

Discussion published by Gerhard Seibert on Wednesday, September 11, 2019

ANN: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos (PósAfro) da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) encerra processo seletivo em 1 de outubro

ABERTO EDITAL DO PROCESSO SELETIVO PARA ALUNO REGULAR 2020.1

O Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos Étnicos e Africanos inicia o processo seletivo para aluno regular deste programa da Universidade Federal da Bahia. A primeira etapa de inscrição será realizada entre o dia 1 de setembro ao dia 1 de outubro de 2019. 

Para mais informações acesse a abra "Editais", em seguida veja o documento "Edital para Aluno Regular 2020.1" 

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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.
 

Review published on Thursday, August 15, 2019
Author: 
José Pedro Monteiro
Reviewer: 
Zachary Guthrie

Guthrie on Monteiro, 'Portugal e a questão do trabalho forçado: um império sob escrutínio (1944-1962)'

José Pedro Monteiro. Portugal e a questão do trabalho forçado: um império sob escrutínio (1944-1962). Lisbon: Edições 70, 2018. 404 pp. EUR 21.90 (paper), ISBN 978-972-44-2060-8.

Reviewed by Zachary Guthrie (University of Mississippi) Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2019) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

Review published on Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Author: 
Inês Nascimento Rodrigues
Reviewer: 
Inocência Mata

Mata on Rodrigues, 'Espectros de Batepá: memórias e narrativas do 'Massacre de 1953' em São Tomé e Príncipe'

Inês Nascimento Rodrigues. Espectros de Batepá: memórias e narrativas do 'Massacre de 1953' em São Tomé e Príncipe. Oporto: Edições Afrontamento, 2018. 300 pp. EUR 18.00 (paper), ISBN 978-972-36-1659-0.

Reviewed by Inocência Mata (Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (May, 2019) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

Review published on Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Author: 
Todd Cleveland
Reviewer: 
Nuno Domingos

Domingos on Cleveland, 'Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975'

Todd Cleveland. Following the Ball: The Migration of African Soccer Players across the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1949-1975. Ohio RIS Global Series. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2017. Illustrations. 280 pp. $80.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-89680-313-8; $32.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-89680-314-5.

Reviewed by Nuno Domingos (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (April, 2019) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

Review published on Monday, April 1, 2019
Author: 
Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen, Domingos Manuel do Rosário, eds.
Reviewer: 
David Robinson

Robinson on Morier-Genoud and Cahen and Manuel do Rosário, 'The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992'

Eric Morier-Genoud, Michel Cahen, Domingos Manuel do Rosário, eds. The War Within: New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992. Suffolk: James Currey, 2018. Illustrations. 268 pp. $99.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-84701-180-0.

Reviewed by David Robinson (Edith Cowan University) Published on H-Luso-Africa (April, 2019) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

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