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.
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.
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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.
Online talk via Zoom, by Marissa Moorman
June 29, 2020, 6 pm Lisbon and Luanda time and 1 pm EDT (US), at Hangar Online
"Powerful Frequencies: Radio, State Power, and the Cold War in Angola, 1931-2002"
For more information and to register, go to https://hangar.com.pt/online/talk-powerful-frequencies-radio-state-power-and-the-cold-war-...
Call for Papers: Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies -- Special Issue "Past and Present Epidemics and Other Devastations Across the Portuguese-Speaking World," Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues, Guest Editor
Abstracts due -- August 1, 2020
https://www.umassd.edu/portuguese-studies-center/news/call-for-papers-plcs-special-issue-p...
Dear colleagues,
Issue 71 of the journal Varia Historia - an International Journal published by the Graduate Studies in History at Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) - has just been released with the dossier "Economic, political and intellectual history of West Africa: Logics of exchange (15th centuries to XIX).
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.
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))
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))
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))
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))
