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 Eric Morier-Genoud on Friday, April 5, 2019

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

Dear colleagues,

We have read the review of our edited book _The War Within. New Perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992_ by Dr David Robinson, published earlier in the week by H-Review and H-Luso-Africa. In view of the attack contained in the review, we feel the need to respond.

Like most, we see book reviews as most important for academia and we appreciate greatly that our book got reviewed on H-Net and H-Luso-Africa, and that it got reviewed and published rapidly.

Discussion published by Kathleen Sheldon on Monday, March 25, 2019

Recent publications on Lusophone Africa

Recent publications on Lusophone Africa, with the usual wide range of topics, with some of interest on environmental issues and urban studies.

Send your own news to me at ksheldon@ucla.edu, please include a link and post in citation format.

Nuno Vidal, “The historical-sociological matrix and ethos at the heart and strength of MPLA’s modern Angola,” Tempo 25, 1 Niterói jan./abr. 2019

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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 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))

Review published on Thursday, August 2, 2018
Author: 
Malyn Newitt
Reviewer: 
Eric Allina

Allina on Newitt, 'A Short History of Mozambique'

Malyn Newitt. A Short History of Mozambique. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 224 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-19-084742-5.

Reviewed by Eric Allina (University of Ottawa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2018) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

Review published on Monday, July 16, 2018
Author: 
Jon Schubert
Reviewer: 
Vasco Martins

Martins on Schubert, 'Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola'

Jon Schubert. Working the System: A Political Ethnography of the New Angola. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018. xvii + 247 pp. $27.95 (paper), ISBN 978-1-5017-1370-5; $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-5017-1369-9.

Reviewed by Vasco Martins (Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), University of Coimbra) Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2018) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))

Review published on Monday, October 23, 2017
Author: 
Cécile Fromont
Reviewer: 
Carlos Almeida

Almeida on Fromont, 'The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo'

Cécile Fromont. The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Illustrations. 328 pp. $47.50 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4696-1871-5; $19.99 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-4696-1872-2.

Reviewed by Carlos Almeida (Centro de História/Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (October, 2017) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik

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