CFP Conference : Renaissance Society of America Conference, Chicago, IL, March 21-23, 2024
*Attention Lusophone scholars working on Jesuit history*
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.
Podcast: Tecnografias #2 "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" com António TOMÁS (Universidade de Joanesburgo) [Podcasts Sci-Tech Asia]
Tecnografias é uma plataforma de debate transatlântico em redor de livros recentes na área da antropologia e das ciências sociais. Cada episódio é uma conversa e um convite para refletir sobre os grandes desafios do mundo contemporâneo na sua complexidade e pluriversalidade.
Seminar: Histories of the Present. The formation of contemporary world with Andreas Stucki (University of Bern) - 19 May 2023 - 4pm (GMT) . On site and online
Engendering Empire: Late Iberian Colonialism in Africa, 1955-1975 - Andreas Stucki
Organization: Hugo Gonçalves Dores (University of Coimbra), Ana Guardião (University of Florence), Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra), José Pedro Monteiro (University of Minho)
When: 19 May 2023
Where: University of Minho (Braga)
Time: 4:00 pm (GMT)
On site and online*
CFP (conference) : The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023) - Lisbon, 22-23 September 2023
Call for Papers
International Conference: Online and In-Person
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:
Ângela Benoliel Coutinho
Benoliel Coutinho on Borges, 'Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978'
Sónia Vaz Borges. Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC Education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Edition, 2019. 268 pp. $66.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-3-631-71942-8.
Reviewed by Ângela Benoliel Coutinho (Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI)) Published on H-Luso-Africa (May, 2023) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))
Reviewer:
Ana Lucia Sá
Sá on Martins, 'Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola'
Vasco Martins. Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa Series. London: Routledge, 2021. 184 pp. $160.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-367-86086-8.
Reviewed by Ana Lucia Sá (ISCTE - Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (August, 2022) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))
Reviewer:
Raquel Madureira
Madureira on Laban, 'Dicionário de particularidades lexicais e morfossintácticas de expressão literária em português: Moçambique'
Michel Laban. Dicionário de particularidades lexicais e morfossintácticas de expressão literária em português: Moçambique. Paris: Chandeigne, 2018. 1536 pp. EUR 48.00, ISBN 978-2-36732-183-7.
Reviewed by Raquel Madureira (Universidade de Lisboa) Published on H-Luso-Africa (July, 2022) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))
Reviewer:
Raúl Mendes Fernandes
Mendes Fernandes on Kohl, 'A Creole Nation: National Integration in Guinea-Bissau'
Christoph Kohl. A Creole Nation: National Integration in Guinea-Bissau. New York: Berghahn, 2018. Illustrations. 248 pp. $29.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-78533-425-2; $135.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-78533-424-5.
Reviewed by Raúl Mendes Fernandes (Universidade Amílcar Cabral) Published on H-Luso-Africa (January, 2022) Commissioned by Philip J. Havik (Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT))