Recent publications on Lusophone Africa

Here is a list - a bit longer than usual - of recent publications on Lusophone Africa - some from 2014 that have just come to my attention, and several just released in 2015.

Joseph C. Miller, ed., The Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2015); associate editors, Vincent Brown, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Laurent Dubois, and Karen Ordahl Kupperman.  Covers the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries with five introductory essays followed by over one hundred brief entries on a wide range of topics.

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, The ‘Civilising Mission’ of Portuguese Colonialism, 1870-1930 (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series; Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)

Samuël Coghe, “Inter-Imperial Learning and African Health Care in Portuguese Angola in the Interwar Period,” Social History of Medicine 28, 1 (February 2015): 134-154.

Susana Salvaterra Trovão, Sónia Cristina Caetano Ramalho, and Maria Inês Pereira Torcato David, “Transnational families, religious participation and gender dynamics: Filipino, Sao Tomean and Indo-Mozambican immigrant women in Lisbon, Portugal,” Gender, Place & Culture 22, 3 (April 2015): 325-343.

Judith Marshall, Contesting Big Mining From Canada to Mozambique, Transnational Institute (January 2015) http://www.tni.org/sites/www.tni.org/files/download/06_tni_state-of-power-2015_contesting_big_mining_from_canada_to_mozambique-1.pdf

Carlos Nuno Castel-Branco, “Growth, capital accumulation and economic porosity in Mozambique: social losses, private gains,” Review of African Political Economy 41, Supplement 1 (December 2014): S26-S48.

Jason Sumich, “The Uncertainty of Prosperity: Dependence and the Politics of Middle-Class Privilege in Maputo,” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology (online, Jan 2015)

Desha M. Girod, Explaining postconflict reconstruction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).  Includes a chapter on “Similar background, different windfall: Mozambique and Angola.”

 Christine Hatzky, Cubans in Angola: South-South cooperation and transfer of knowledge, 1976-1991 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015).  Translation of Kubaner in Angola (2012).

Susana Salgado, The Internet and democracy building in Lusophone African countries (Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2014).

Florita Cuhanga António Telo, “Liberdade de ensino em Angola: um mito?,” in África e direitos humanos, ed. Domingos da Cruz (São Paulo : Paco Editorial, 2014).

António Panguila, ed. Amor no meio do teu mar: antologia da poesia erótica Angolana (Luanda: União dos Escritos Angolanos, 2014).

Gennady Shubin, et al., ed., Cuito Cuanavale: frontline accounts by Soviet soldiers (Auckland Park, South Africa: Jacana Media, 2014).

Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues, “Rapid adaptations to change and displacements in the Lundas (Angola),” in Displacement economies in Africa: paradoxes of crisis and creativity, ed. Amanda Hammar (London: Zed, 2014).

Catarina Madeira-Santos, “‘To Round Out this Immense Country’: The Circulation of Cartographic and Historiographical Knowledge from Brazil to Angola,” in Negotiating knowledge in early modern empires : a decentered view, ed. László Kontler, Antonella Romano, Silvia Sebastiani, and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).