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 Jessica Falconi on Friday, December 6, 2019

CFP: CONLAB 2020 - GT23: Descolonizando histórias e memórias: o papel do Cinema na abertura a outros saberes

Chamada de comunicações para o Grupo de Trabalho GT23, XIV Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro (CONLAB) e 3º Congresso da Associação Internacional de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de Língua Portuguesa

2-4 de Setembro 2020, Coimbra, Centro de Estudos Sociais.

Língua de trabalho: Português.

Deadline: 31 de dezembro de 2019

Descolonizando histórias e memórias: o papel do Cinema na abertura a outros saberes

Discussion published by Kathleen Sheldon on Thursday, December 5, 2019

TOC: Revista de História, n. 178 (2019), Dossiê: Moçambique em perspectiva: histórias conectadas, interdisciplinaridade

Revista de História, n. 178 (2019)

http://www.revistas.usp.br/revhistoria/issue/view/11018, scroll down for this dossier
(all articles are available at this link):

Discussion published by Kathleen Sheldon on Saturday, November 30, 2019

CFP: American Portuguese Studies Association, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT), 24–26 September 2020

American Portuguese Studies Association, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT)

24–26 September 2020

Conference Presidential Theme: “The Genealogical Imagination”

Deadline to submit, December 15, 2019

Further information at -- https://apsa.us/apsa-2020/ 

 

And note this special call for a panel on the Portuguese-Speaking Black Atlantic from Kathryn Sanchez and Pedro Schacht:

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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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