Recent publications on Lusophone Africa

Kathleen Sheldon Discussion

The latest list of recent publications on Lusophone Africa, many great items here!

 

To share your own recent publication information with our network, please send in full citation format and if possible, with a link, to ksheldon@ucla.edu.

 

Lars Buur and Malin J. Nystrand, “Mediating bureaucrats: embedded economic action in the Mozambican sugar industry,” Journal of Modern African Studies 58, 3 (September 2020): 337-360 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-modern-african-studies/article/mediating-bureaucrats-embedded-economic-action-in-the-mozambican-sugar-industry/C90A745825C5BEB8060C16D086942CA9

 

Cheryl M. Schmitz, “Kufala! Translating Witchcraft in an Angolan-Chinese Labor Dispute,” HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10, 2 (2020): 473-485 https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/709482

 

Iracema Dulley and Luísa Tui Sampaio, “Accusation and Legitimacy in the Civil War in Angola,” Vibrant (Virtual Brazilian Anthropology) 17 (2020) http://vibrant.org.br/downloads/v17/ArtigoDulleySampaio.pdf

 

Zack Zimbalist, “So many ‘Africanists’, so few Africans: reshaping our understanding of ‘African politics’ through greater nuance and amplification of African voices,” Review of African Political Economy, (2020), briefly discusses Mozambique; pre-publication view, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03056244.2020.1840972

 

Domingos do Rosário, Egídio Guambe, e Ericino de Salema (orgs.), Democracia Multipartidária em Moçambique (Johannesburg: EISA, 2020) Sixteen chapters, open access https://www.eisa.org/pdf/moz2020multiparty.pdf

 

Marie-Eve Bouchard, “Scaling proximity to whiteness: Racial boundary-making on Sao Tomé Island,” Ethnography (November 2020) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1466138120967373

 

Marie-Eve Bouchard, “Redefining Forro as a marker of identity: Language contact as a driving force for language maintenance among Santomeans in Portugal,” Multilingua, pre-publication,

https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mult/ahead-of-print/article-10.1515-multi-2020-0082/article-10.1515-multi-2020-0082.xml

 

Matthias Röhrig Assunção, “Engolo e capoeira. Jogos de combate étnicos e diaspóricos no Atlântico Sul,” Tempo, Niterói, 26, 3 (set./dez. 2020): p. 522-556 http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-77042020000300522&lng=pt&nrm=iso   

 

João Figueiredo, “Diamond Desire – Probing the Epistemological Entanglements of Geology and Ethnography at Diamang (Angola),” South African Historical Journal (2020) pre-publication view, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582473.2020.1836021

 

Eduardo Antonio Estevam Santos, “Imprensa, raça e civilização: José de Fontes Pereira e o pensamento intelectual angolano no século XIX,” Afro-Ásia 61 (2020): 118-157 https://portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/issue/view/2076/showToc

 

António Duarte Silva, ed., Carlos Teixeira da Mota: O primeiro diplomata português em Luanda (Junho de 1975 - Maio de 1976) (Tinto da China, 2020), https://tintadachina.pt/produto/carlos-teixeira-da-mota/

 

Nicole Paganini and Stefanie Lemke, “‘There is Food We Deserve, and There is Food We Do not Deserve’: Food Injustice, Place and Power in Urban Agriculture in Cape Town and Maputo,” Local Environment 25, 11-12 (November 2020): 1000-1020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2020.1853081

 

Rui da Silva and Joana Oliveira, “Privatização da educação em 24 países africanos considerados frágeis e afetados por conflito: tendências, pontos comuns e atípicos,” [Includes Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau] Educação & Sociedade 43 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1590/es.238622

And discussion about the findings on SCIELO blog Humanas

English: https://humanas.blog.scielo.org/en/2020/11/12/what-are-the-main-trends-in-education-privatisation-in-african-countries/

Portuguese: https://humanas.blog.scielo.org/blog/2020/11/12/quais-sao-as-principais-tendencias-na-privatizacao-da-educacao-em-paises-africanos/

 

Hangar: Centro de Investigação Artística, Atlantica: Contemporary Art from Mozambique and its Diaspora (2020) https://hangar.com.pt/loja/atlantica-contemporary-art-from-mozambique-and-its-diaspora/

 

Bárbara Direito, Terra e Colonialismo em Moçambique: A região de Manica e Sofala sob a Companhia de Moçambique, 1892-1942 (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2020) https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/terra-e-colonialismo-em-mocambique

 

Tom Stoddart, Extraordinary Women: Images of Courage, Endurance & Defiance (ACC Art Books, 2020), photographs of women, including in Mozambique; also on exhibit at Side Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, from Saturday 26th September until Sunday13th December https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/extraordinary-women/

 

Eric Morier-Genoud, Victor Miguel Castillo de Macedo, e Francieli Lisboa de Almeida, “Antropólogos, missionários e imagens do continente africano - entrevista com Eric Morier-Genoud,” Campos 21, 1 (Jan.-Jun. 2020):189-208 https://revistas.ufpr.br/campos/article/view/70738

 

Abel Djassi Amado, “Amílcar Lopes Cabral, 1924–1973,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia on African History, ed., Thomas Spear, https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-788

 

Carla dos Santos, Tânia Pereira, and Miriam Trindade, Mulheres e Participação em Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe (ACEP / MIGUILAN/ OMCV / PDHEG, 2020) Para outras publicações da ACEP vejam em https://www.acep.pt/recursos-1

 

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi; Tshepo Moloi, and Alda Romão Saúte Saíde, eds., Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa: Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle (Rowman and Littlefield, 2020) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615602/Guerrilla-Radios-in-Southern-Africa-Broadcasters-Technology-Propaganda-Wars-and-the-Armed-Struggle
Includes the following articles:
A Voz da Frelimo and the Liberation of Mozambique, Alda Romão Saúte Saíde

Angola’s Guerrilla Radios: Popular Memory and Perils of Technology, Marissa Moorman

 

Africa Yearbook: Politics, Economy and Society South of the Sahara in 2019, vol. 16, ed., Albert Awedoba, Benedikt Kamski, Andreas Mehler, and David Sebudubudu (Brill, 2020) https://brill.com/view/serial/AYB
Gerhard Seibert, Cabo Verde
Christoph Kohl, Guinea-Bissau
Gerhard Seibert, São Tomé e Príncipe
Jon Schubert, Angola
Joseph Hanlon, Mozambique

 

UNU (United Nations University) WIDER, Relatório: Desenvolvimento económico e instituições – Moçambique numa encruzilhada: um diagnóstico institucional, Relatório esboço (Nov 2020) Also in English at this link https://igmozambique.wider.unu.edu/pt/relatório/economic-development-and-institutions-mozambique-fork-road-institutional-diagnostic.
See Joseph Hanlon for a synopsis, Mozambique News Reports 505 (16 November 2020) http://www.open.ac.uk/technology/mozambique/sites/www.open.ac.uk.technology.mozambique/files/files/Mozambique_506-16Nov2020_UNU-Wider_Mozambique-at-fork-in-the-road.pdf

 

Sheila Pereira Khan, Maria Paula Meneses, and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen, eds., Mozambique on the Move: Challenges and Reflections (Brill 2019); and more from the AEGIS series, now available open access, https://www.aegis-eu.org/aegis-series-brill-open-access

 

 

News and Blogs:

 

Paolo Israel, “Al-shabab’s terror in Mozambique,” Mail & Guardian (Nov. 20, 2020) https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/mail-guardian/20201120/281754156865369

 

Michael Hagedorn, “45 anos depois, vai haver de novo tropas portuguesas em Cabo Delgado?,” Público (1 Dez 2020) https://www.publico.pt/2020/12/01/opiniao/opiniao/45-anos-vai-haver-novo-tropas-portuguesas-cabo-delgado-1941260

 

Adérito Júlio Machava, “Mozambique’s Borders,” Africa is a Country (1 Dec 2020) https://africasacountry.com/2020/12/mozambiques-borders

 

Jonna Katto, “Women’s memories of food offer insights into Mozambique’s liberation struggle,” The Conversation (November 8, 2020) https://theconversation.com/womens-memories-of-food-offer-insights-into-mozambiques-liberation-struggle-149003

 

João Carlos, “Novo filme de Welket Bungué retrata passado esclavagista na Guiné-Bissau,” DW (Nov 20, 2020) https://www.dw.com/pt-002/novo-filme-de-welket-bungué-retrata-passado-esclavagista-na-guiné-bissau/a-55676060

 

Neil Young, “‘Air Conditioner’ (‘Ar condicionado’): Film Review | Rotterdam 2020,” Hollywood Reporter (Jan 26, 2020) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/air-conditioner-ar-condicionado-1272834 [conclusion of the review: “very chill.”]
This Angolan film won the film award from the U.S. African Studies Association this year. 

 

Fernando Mariano Cardeira, “O assassinato de Amílcar Cabral,” Buala (21 Novembro 2020) https://www.buala.org/pt/jogos-sem-fronteiras/o-assassinato-de-amilcar-cabral

 

Wabwire Joseph Ian, “15 African Artists on the Rise,” Artsy (19 Nov 2020) includes brief entries on Gonçalo Mabunda (Moz.), Alida Rodrigues (Angola), and Keyezua (Angola), but they are all wonderful. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-15-african-artists-rise