Boletim AfricanistaAno X, n.º 9, Setembro de 2009Dirigido por Luís Carmo Reis

Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do PortoVia Panorâmica, s/n – 4150-564 Porto, Portugal

http://www.africanos.eu

1. Agenda africanista

2009

– 02 a 26 de Setembro de 2009 – Exposição What We See: Images, Voices, and Versioning (Reconsidering an Anthropometric Collection from Southern Africa). Basileia. Basler Afrika Bibliographien. [“The history of sound and image documentation from southern Africa is a troubled one. The exhibition What We See sets out to engage critically with these historical practices by focusing on a so-called ‘Archive of races threatened by extinction’, established in 1931 by the German artist Hans Lichtenecker. He gathered his body-based material from Africans living in Namibia – at the time (German) South West Africa. ‘What We See’ revolves around the testimonies of people who had to endure invasive investigations within a colonial context. Casts were made of their faces, their bodies were measured and anthropometric photographs were taken and voices were recorded. The exhibition assembles a fragile space of images, voices, stories and portraits, historic documents and contemporary artworks. This is the first opportunity to view the exhibition in Europe. Until May this year it was shown at the IZIKO Slave Lodge in Cape Town (South Africa). Opening 2 September 2009, 18:30. Opening times: 3-26 September 2009, Thursday to Saturday, 15:00-19:00. Guided tours in German: Thursdays at 16:00, Saturdays at 16:00. For more information on the exhibition, the supporting programme and a press documentation see http://www.baslerafrika.ch/e/aktuelle_veranstaltungen.php”]

– 03 a 06 de Setembro de 2009 – Rethinking Africa and the Atlantic World. Stirling (Escócia). [“This conference combines the annual meeting of the British Group in Early American History with an event to mark the retirement of Prof. Robin Law, and is hosted by the Department of History at the University of Stirling.

Once a welcome and integrative response to the challenge of fragmentation, Atlantic history has often struggled to reconcile and accommodate subfields and disciplines, especially at the loose margins of its geographic range. There is a sense that it has talked the talk but not always walked the walk. On the one hand the core synthetic narrative has been quite selective, predictable, and unresponsive in its interaction with new scholarship in peripheral areas. On the other, new research has too often assumed connectivity, by virtue of the historiographical Atlantic turn, without fully addressing difficult questions of orientation, contingency, perspective, and comparative context. As a growing chorus of scepticism challenges the maturing (and perhaps declining) field of Atlantic history, this year’s conference considers how relevant the model continues to be, and in what ways it might be adapted to retain intellectual vitality and pedagogical usefulness.

In particular, the theme of the conference invites participants to rethink Africa and the Atlantic world. The significance of West Africa to the field of Atlantic history is well established, primarily through its furnishing of slaves to European traders. Ironically in light of its severing effects on individual lives, the African slave trade represents one of the connective engines of the Atlantic world, for instance linking oceanic commercial networks or colonial labour regimes, and facilitating important comparisons across nations, crops, and environments. Recent scholarship has proliferated on this subject, stimulated by disputes over Equiano’s authenticity, the meaning of the Black Atlantic, the nature of the Middle Passage, and the anniversaries of abolition that have generated such popular interest and publication over the past two or three years. This conference hopes to sustain some of this scholarly momentum, and also to redirect it to areas where the significance of Africa to Atlantic history, or of the Atlantic to African histories, is less clear. Ultimately, the conference hopes to bring into conversation recent developments in Atlantic

history, the history of the Americas, and African history, in order to identify new directions for scholarship and build on previous models. Some suggestive questions are appended below:

What emerges if we apply the multicentrism that is supposedly ingrained in Atlantic history to Africans’ highly competitive personal and communal environments? How comparable were Africans’ experiences not only as slave sellers, but as buyers (of textiles, currencies, alcohol and guns) with other African ethno-linguistic groups, or with peoples on other Atlantic continents? Does the early modern Atlantic framework hinder moving “Beyond Blacks, Bondage, and Blame” (the title of a 2004 essay by Joseph C. Miller)? How do we account for the resilient character of pre-colonial African institutions (particularly social, economic, and political), and to what degree did they determine market behaviour? How should the position of Africa, the barrier (or conduit) between Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds, be properly defined from the perspective of early modern empires? How differentiated were African identities in the Americas, and how rapidly did they erode with creolisation?

The aims of the conference are: To provide a platform for current and new research on the themes listed below; To foster co-operation and interaction between historians of different fields, continents, time/historical periods and generations; To provide an opportunity for graduate students and early career researchers to showcase their research; To mark Prof. Law’s contribution to African and Atlantic history.(… …) The programme will include the annual Caroline Robbins lecture, to be delivered by Prof. Billy G. Smith (Montana State University), a range of keynote speakers from Africa, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., a book-club session, the launch of Prof. Law’s festschrift, and social activities in Stirling. (… …)

Conference chairs: Dr. Ben Marsh (Stirling), Dr. Phia Steyn (Stirling). Conference committee: Prof. Simon Newman (Glasgow), Ms. Catriona Paul (BGEAH postgrad rep, Dundee), Dr. Silke Strickrodt (Berlin), Dr. Matthew Ward (Dundee), Dr. Natalie Zacek (Manchester)”]

– 09 a 11 de Setembro de 2009 – Classificar o Mundo. IV Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA). Lisboa. [“Em 2009, a Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia celebra o seu vigésimo aniversário com a realização do IV Congresso da APA, subordinado ao tema Classificar o Mundo. Entendemos que este tema nos permite abordar tanto o que a antropologia faz como o que a antropologia estuda.O acto de classificar está implícito na construção de grandes categorias de identificação e diferenciação sociocultural que têm acompanhado a reflexão da nossa disciplina. Ao mesmo tempo, classificar – objectos, conceitos e relações – é também um objecto de reflexão antropológica sobre processos sociais e culturais, políticos e cognitivos de entendimento do mundo. Assim, a partir deste tema, propomos uma reflexão sobre a construção de categorizações que tanto são discriminatórias, e desencadeiam a desigualdade, como promovem a solidariedade e o comprometimento. O tema remete-nos, assim, para os processos de classificação categorial e de alteridade, mas também, e em última instância, faz-nos pensar nos espartilhos da condição humana, nos paradoxos e desajustes da história e nos processos de criação das pessoas no mundo. Desta forma, propomos uma reflexão tanto sobre os processos culturais de comunicação como sobre a forma como tais processos ocorrem através da construção do mundo.Neste congresso, poderemos tomar em consideração a relevância contemporânea deste tema antropológico clássico. Relembrando um dos debates fundadores da antropologia – a problemática do totemismo, por exemplo – queremos hoje igualmente reactivar a discussão sobre as condições de diferenciação humana, sobre as políticas de discriminação étnica, de género, de circulação de pessoas, de fechamento de fronteiras e abertura do mercado, sobre a mobilidade humana e ainda sobre os grandes divisores de sistemas sociais e cognitivos. Por isso podemos dizer que classificar o mundo implica, igualmente, reflectir sobre as condições de produção do conhecimento antropológico, tais como o universalismo e o particularismo, a comparação e a construção de categorias de entendimento da vida e do poder. Ficam aqui múltiplas sugestões para o debate. Afinal, como se ordena o mundo e como se torna essa ordenação num processo de conquista, escondendo programas sociais e políticos sob princípios de diferenciação?Neste ano comemorativo do vigésimo aniversário da APA, apelamos de forma particularmente veemente para a sempre dinâmica participação dos nossos sócios no congresso. Partindo do desafio deixado pelo tema do congresso, enviem-nos desde já propostas para painéis temáticos. Queremos fazer deste congresso um evento celebratório da antropologia em Portugal.”Mais informações: Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) – Instituto de Ciências Sociais/Universidade de Lisboa – ICS – Av. Professor Anibal Bettencourt, n.º 9 – 1600-189 Lisboa; apa@ics.ul.pt – http://www.apantropologia.net/]

– 21 a 23 de Setembro de 2009 – Slavery in All its Forms: Historical Practices and Contemporary Problems. A Three-Day Intensive Course for Postgraduate Students and Practitioners. Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull (Inglaterra). [“Slavery is both a core feature of human history and a topic of increasing public concern in the contemporary world. This intensive short course offers participants a unique opportunity to study both historical slave systems and modern forms of slavery in a single setting. This interdisciplinary programme has been designed for scholars and practitioners who are familiar which some aspects of slavery and abolition, but would benefit from further engagement with the broader history and modern dimensions of slavery in all its forms.

To help support postgraduate students, the Wilberforce Institute has also secured funding for ten travel bursaries, which cover UK travel, accommodation and course fees. The masterclass also precedes a major international conference on ‘Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa’, which will take place between the 23rd-25th of September at the Wilberforce Institute. Participants may want to consider attending both course and conference.

Course Structure: This intensive course will take place over three days. Over the course of ten individual sessions, participants will receive expert instruction on various historical slave systems, the legal abolition of slavery, modern forms of slavery, methods for studying slavery, reparations for slavery, and forms of public commemoration. As part of this programme, participants will also undertake a guided tour of Wilberforce House, one of the world’s oldest museums dedicated to the history of slavery and abolition.Participants will be provided with a selection of readings on each of the topics covered in the course. Each session will involve an introductory lecture, followed by class participation and deliberation. Places on the course are strictly limited. No more than 50 places will be made available. In order to keep class sizes as small as possible, participants will be divided into two different groups. Each morning and afternoon will involve two parallel sessions, with one group attending one session, and a second group attending the other. At the end of these initial sessions the two groups will then switch, ensuring that participants receive instruction in both topics. On the final day of the course, participants will also have the choice of studying either historical or contemporary research methods.

21st of September: Morning. Introduction: Slavery: Past and Present (Joel Quirk, Wilberforce Institute and Darshan Vigneswaran, Forced Migration Studies Programme, WITS). Afternoon. Transatlantic Slavery (Simon D. Smith, Wilberforce Institute); Slavery in Africa (Paul Lovejoy, the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University).22nd of September: Morning. The Legal Abolition of Slavery (David Richardson, Wilberforce Institute). Bonded Labour (Joel Quirk and Gary Craig, Wilberforce Institute).Afternoon. Human Trafficking and the Exploitation of Migrants (Mick Wilkinson, Wilberforce Institute). ‘Classical’ Slavery and Descent Based Discrimination (Benedetta Rossi, Centre for the Study of International Slavery, University of Liverpool). 23rd of September: Morning. Research Methods and Contemporary Migration (Darshan Vigneswaran) or Research Methods and the History of Slavery (Douglas Hamilton).Midday. Repairing Historical Wrongs: Slavery and its Legacies (Rhoda Howard-Hassmann, Department of Global Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University). Representing Slavery at Wilberforce House (Nicholas J. Evans and Douglas Hamilton, Wilberforce Institute).

Instructors: Dr Benedetta Rossi is an expert on slavery and migration in Niger, and is the recent author of Reconfiguring Slavery: West African Trajectories (Liverpool, 2009).Dr Darshan Vigneswaran is an expert on migration in Africa, and is the recent author of articles in Political Geography, Development and Review of International Studies.

Professor David Richardson is a world renowned expert on the history of Transatlantic Slavery, and is the recent co-author of Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (Yale, 2008).

Dr Douglas Hamilton is an expert on history of the eighteenth century British Atlantic World, and is the recent co-author of Representing Slavery: Art, Artefacts and Archives in the Collections of the National Maritime Museum (Lund Humphries, 2007).

Professor Gary Craig is an expert on social justice and modern slavery, and is the recent author of Child Slavery Worldwide (Special Issue of Children and Society, 2008).

Dr Joel Quirk is an expert on links between historical slave systems and contemporary problems, and is the recent author of Unfinished Business: A Comparative Survey of Historical and Contemporary Slavery (UNESCO, 2008).

Dr Mick Wilkinson is an expert on migration and human trafficking in the United Kingdom, and is the recent co-author of Contemporary Slavery in the United Kingdom (Joseph Rowntree, 2007).

Dr Nicholas J. Evans is an expert on migration, diaspora, and ‘white’ slavery, and is the recent author of articles in the International Journal of Maritime History, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, and Journal of Jewish Culture and History.

Professor Paul Lovejoy is a world renowned expert on the history of slavery in Africa and African diasporas, and is the recent author of Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate (Africa World Press, 2005).

Professor Rhoda Howard-Hassmann is a world renowned expert on international human rights, and is the recent author of Reparations to Africa (Pennsylvania, 2008).Professor Simon D. Smith is an expert on both the history of transatlantic slavery and the history of the Caribbean, and is the recent author of Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: the World of the Lascelles (1648-1834) (Cambridge, 2006).

(… …) Contact Information: Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University

of Hull, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK Phone: 01482 305176 Fax: 01482 305184 Email: wise@hull.ac.uk Requests for further information can also be directed to either Sarah Carter at

sarah.carter@hull.ac.uk (admin) or Joel Quirk at j.quirk@hull.ac.uk (course content).About the Wilberforce Institute: Since its foundation in 2006, the Wilberforce Institute has established itself as a leading voice on questions of slavery, both nationally and internationally. The Institute seeks to improve knowledge and understanding of both historical slave systems and modern forms of slavery, and to inform public policy and political activism. Instead of viewing historical and contemporary slavery as separate fields of study, the Institute starts with the idea thatthe history and legacies of slavery and abolition can offer an invaluable foundation from which to understand and eradicate modern forms of human bondage. This integrated approach to past and present is unique. The Wilberforce Institute is the only place in the world which can offer specialistexpertise on both historical slave systems and contemporary problems.”]

– 23 de Setembro de 2009 – Migrants and Diversity: Understanding Trends & Traditions. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. Rooms ST 274/275/276 Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London. [Programa: “9.45 am – Registration; 9.50 am – Welcome; 9.55 am – Introduction; 10.00 am – Imperial Slave Soldiers: British and French Enlistment of Africans during the Napoleonic Wars (1795-1815) (Bryan Claxton, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study); 10.45am – From African Migrant to Asian Citizen: Displacement and Diversity (Shihan de Silva, Institute of Commonwealth Studies); 11.30 am – The Democratic Sidi Sardars of Janjira (Faaeza Jasdanwalla, University of Aberystwyth); 12.15 pm – The colonial response to African slaves in British India: two contrasting cases (Rosie Llewellyn-Jones, Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society); 1.00 pm – Lunch break; 2.00 pm – The Emancipation of Slaves in Traditional Ethiopia as decreed in the ‘Fetha Nagast’, or Law of the Kings (Richard Pankhurst, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia); 2.45 pm – Understanding Diversity through Traditional Arts of India (Saurabh Gupta, London Metropolitan University); 3.30 pm – Diversity and Collaborative Advantage (Richard Ennals, Kingston University); 4.15 pm – Round Table Discussion; 5.00 pm – Wine & Cheese Reception. For reservations contact: shihan.desilva@sas.ac.uk (places limited). Registration fee: £5 (payable on the day)”]

– 23 e 24 de Setembro de 2009 – Colóquio em homenagem a Aquino de Bragança: Como Fazer Ciências Sociais e Humanas em África: Questões epistemológicas, metodológicas, teóricas e políticas. Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Maputo. [“O Centro de Estudos Africanos (da UEM) está a organizar um colóquio (...) em homenagem a Aquino de Bragança (...)” “(...) ‘Num contexto em que a globalização deixa cada vez menos espaço para pensar fora dos paradigmas ditados pelo sistema, é crucial lembrar uma personalidade que conseguiu fazer da sua vida um exemplo de fidelidade à politica emancipalista, sem cair, como ele gostava de repetir, no «Marxismo de cartilhas» (…). A grande paixão política e intelectual de Aquino de Bragança foi sempre a de procurar respostas singulares aos desafios não só do momento, mas também do futuro’ (J. Depelchin, http://www.pambazuka.org/pt/category/features/47521, 19 de Abril de 2008). Falecido em 1986, o pensamento de Aquino de Bragança continua sempre vivo e presente, quando nos lembra a necessidade de um questionamento permanente à produção científica, e à necessidade de uma descolonização do pensamento africano. Em memória do que lhe foi mais caro, enquanto

pensador, cientista e defensor dos direitos humanos, este colóquio presta-lhe uma modesta homenagem.As crises de pensamento decorrentes das grandes mudanças que ocorreram no mundo durante a última metade do século XX e início deste século levaram as Ciências Sociais e as Humanidades a acelerar a sua reconceptualização num esforço tendente a clarificar e redefinir o seu papel na sociedade. Hoje, mais do que nunca, se debate sobre a finalidade das Ciências Sociais e o seu papel na sociedade. Proporcionam um aconselhamento sábio sobre problemas do presente? Ajudam os seres humanos a interpretar o mundo que os rodeia para melhor agirem sobre o mesmo? Contribuem para uma maior eficácia das decisões políticas e administrativas? A procura de respostas para estes questionamentos não pode estar dissociada da discussão em redor da problemática referente à produção e apropriação do conhecimento. A cultura científica hoje tornou-se uma importante dimensão constitutiva das sociedades contemporâneas, enquanto recurso e enquanto problema, na medida em que interfere com todos os domínios da vida social. Ela representa o vector decisivo de modernização e desenvolvimento, no que se tem vindo a chamar ‘sociedade de informação’ e ‘sociedade de conhecimento’. Neste contexto, é lícito perguntar, ‘como fazer ciências sociais em África’? Numa altura em que tanto se discutem as relações Norte-Sul e Sul-Sul, colonialimo/pós-colonialismo e colonialidade, que se aplicam igualmente na produção e apropriação do conhecimento científico, questionamo-nos se é possível produzir formas alternativas de conhecimento a partir do continente africano, que possam contribuir para uma perspectiva epistemológica crítica que seja capaz de desafiar quer os paradigmas eurocêntricos hegemónicos, quer os afrocêntricos. É igualmente relevante discutir até que ponto a formulação/reformulação de questões de carácter teórico-metodológico a partir de África poderá de algum modo contribuir para que haja uma descolonização das relações de poder na produção de conhecimento num meio ambiente em que o exercício da cidadania impõe a restrição das liberdades académicas.(... ...)Qualquer dúvida poderá ser enviada para o endereço do colóquio(coloquioaquinodebraganca@uem.mz), ou para:Amélia Neves de Souto: amelianeves.souto@gmail.com Isabel Maria Casimiro: isabelmaria.casimiro@gmail.com Teresa Cruz e Silva: tcsilva@mail.com”]

– 23 a 25 de Setembro de 2009 – Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa. Hull (Inglaterra). [“(…) an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Slavery, Migration, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa’, to take place at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Hull, United Kingdom. This conference will explore linkages between the history of slavery and migration in Africa and contemporary forms of bondage, such as child labour, ‘classical’ slavery, child soldiers, descent based discrimination, and human trafficking and the exploitation of migrants. Eight travel bursaries are available for early career scholars based in and/or from Africa. The conference has been sponsored by: – The Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull (http://www.hull.ac.uk/wise); – The Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of Witwatersrand (http://www.migration.org.za); – The Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto (http://www.africanos.eu/ceaup/); – The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples, York University(http://www.yorku.ca/tubman/Home/index.html); – The European Union Seventh Framework Programme, EURESCL Project (http://www.eurescl.eu); – The British Academy UK-Africa Partnership Programme (http://www.britac.ac.uk/).

(…)Background: The history of slavery and abolition is not confined to the Americas, but also extends to millions of slaves in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. When the Trans-Atlantic slave trade finally came to an end in the 1860s, both slavery and slave trading remained widespread across most of Africa. Prior to the colonial ‘scramble’ of the late nineteenth century, African slaves represented more than a third of the population in some parts of the continent. During this period, the need to abolish slavery and slave trading featured prominently amongst self-serving justifications for wars of colonial conquest, but once European authority was firmly established this anti-slavery rhetoric quickly gave way to cautious incrementalism. Under colonial rule, slavery in Africa experienced a ‘slow death’ that was frequently measured in decades, rather than years. It remains an open question, however, whether the legal abolition of slavery can be regarded as a clear break with the past. Once slave labour was renounced, colonial agents turned to related forms of exploitation, such as forced, bonded and indentured labour, which could be more brutal and

exploitative than indigenous slave systems. When controls on movement associated with slavery came to an end, political elites turned to other instruments to take their place, such as ‘vagrancy’ laws, migration schemes, and racially and ethnically defined barriers.The events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can be connected to more recent developments in continental Africa in a number of ways. In some cases, elements of pre-colonial practices have persisted to this day. Especially problematic here are countries such as Mauritania and Niger, where chattel slavery and descent based discrimination remains an ongoing problem. In a larger number of cases, contemporary forms of bondage involve an extension and reformulation of earlier historical models. In many parts of West Africa, human traffickers have been able to manipulate local traditions based upon the placement of poor children with friends and relatives. In countries such as Sudan and Uganda, recent histories of raiding parties and ‘abductions’ can be traced to earlier historical precedents. When modern human rights campaigners object to ‘slave chocolate’ sourced from parts of West Africa, they are following in the footsteps of earlier campaigns against the use of forced labour in cocoa production under colonial rule. When modern migrants find themselves in dangerous and exploitative conditions, their predicament shares a number of features in common with earlier victims of colonial exploitation. When African governments seek to restrict and regulate movement, their approaches routinely draw upon a series of colonial precedents and templates. In order to fully evaluate both current problems and future prospects, one must first understand historical practices.(…)Interested researchers are invited to submit paper proposals based on one or more of the following themes: Governance: – Similarities and differences in the (ab)use of labour: How have pre-Colonial, Colonial and Post-Colonial political authorities sought to organize and regulate labour in Africa? – Evolving patterns of migration and movement control: How have various models of political authority sought to regulate, promote and/or restrict the movement of peoples in Africa? – Institutional influences and colonial practises: On what terms can we connect colonial budgets, 'native' policies, middle rank administration and forced labour practices?Social and Economic Formations: – Innovation in exploitation: What factors account for the emergence and/or further expansion of new forms of bondage following the legal abolition of slavery across continental Africa? – The persistence of pre-colonial practices: On what terms can historical practices be connected to current problems, such as child labour, descent based discrimination, and/or debt-bondage?The Past in the Present: – Historical parallels with contemporary problems: What can the history of slavery, migration and colonial rule in Africa tell us about contemporary developments and future prospects in Africa? – The legacies of historical slave systems: How has the history of slavery, migration and colonialism influenced contemporary patterns of movement and labour exploitation within Africa? – Repairing historical wrongs in Africa: What avenues are available to repair past injustices?Each of these themes invite scholars who specialise in particular issues and events to reflect upon the broader significance of their field of expertise to both the broader history and contemporary prospects of Africa.(…) Requests for information should be directed to either Joel Quirk at j.quirk@hull.ac.uk or Darshan Vigneswaran at darshan.vigneswaran@wits.ac.za. The organizers of the conference plan on publishing a selection of revised papers as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition.”“Provisional Programme: Wednesday the 23rd of September: 4.00 pm. Conference Registration Opens. Session One: 6.00-7.30 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre. Introduction: Joel Quirk (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull). Keynote Lecture: Paul Lovejoy (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University).Dr Paul Lovejoy is a Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University in Toronto. He holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples at York University. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. Paul Lovejoy’s recent books include Slavery, Commerce and Production in West Africa: Slave Society in the Sokoto Caliphate and Ecology and Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa, along with co-edited works on Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories: Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History, Repercussions of the Atlantic Slave Trade: The Interior of the Bight of

Biafra and the African Diaspora, Enslaving Connections: Changing Cultures of Africa and Brazil during the Era of Slavery, and Pawnship, Slavery and Colonialism in Africa. His award winning book Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa has also been translated into Portuguese in the prestigious series, Civilização Brasileira, as A escravidão na África.7.30-9.00 pm. Wine and Cheese Reception.Thursday the 24th of September:Session Two: 9.00-10.30 am, WISE Lecture Theatre: Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Early Modern Africa. Filipa Ribeiro da Silva (African Studies Centre, Leiden, University of Leiden): African Labour and European Migration in Pre-Colonial West Africa: Dutch and Portuguese Migrants and African Slave and Free Workers (1580s-1670s); David Richardson (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull): A Longue Durée History of Domestic Slaves in Mbundu Villages Chiefs’ ‘Archives’ (Angola). Tbc. Eva Sebestyen (The Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto).Session Three: 9.00-10.30 am, WISE Video Conferencing Suite: The Boundaries of Freedom and Coercion. Jennifer Lofkrantz (Franklin and Marshall College): Strategies for the Prevention of Illegal Enslavement: The Sokoto Caliphate Example; Feisal Farah (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University): Not yet Uhuru/ Not yet Cleansed: The Long Road of Emancipation for Slaves in Mombasa; Stacey Sommerdyk (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull): Enslavement through Migration: Central African Pygmies and External Interlopers.Morning Tea.Session Four: 11.00-12.30 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre: Colonial Taxation and Labour Exploitation in West Central Africa. Maciel Santos (Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto): An Old Question as a New Answer: Native Taxation in Angola after 1907 ; Philip Havik (Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto): The Long Road from Hut to Personal Tax: Policies and Practices in Portuguese Guinea; Augustin Roland D’Almeida (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University): Colonisation and Forced Labour in Africa: The Construction of the Railroad in Congo-Brazzaville (1921-1934).Session Five: 11.00-12.30 pm, WISE Video Conference Suite: Migration and Labour Exploitation in Southern Africa. Nicholas Evans (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull): Slavery, Migration and the Jewish Diaspora in Sub-Saharan Africa (1838-1994); Fredrik Lilja (Uppsala University): Child Labour in South Africa (c. 1870-1960); Francis Musoni (Emory University): Negotiating Colonial Travel Restrictions: Zimbabwean Migrants to South Africa (1912-1974).Lunch.Session Six: 1.30-3.00 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre: Evolving Patterns of Migration and Exploitation in the African Sahel. Lotte Pelckmans (African Studies Centre Leiden, University of Leiden): The ‘Bonne’ as a Modern ‘Kordo?’ The Disciplining of Domestic Workers in Fulbe Society; Isaie Dougnon (University of Bamako): Labour Migration or Child Trafficking? An Historical Analysis of the Case of Dogon Land; Benedetta Rossi (University of Liverpool): Social and Physical Mobility in Keita (Tahoua, Niger).Session Seven: 1.30-3.00 pm, WISE Video Conference Suite: Decolonisation and Labour Exploitation in Lusophone Africa. Alexander Keese (Centro de Estudos Africanos, Universidade do Porto): From Colonial Abuses to Post-Colonial Deception: Forced Labour, Decolonisation and the ‘Serviçal’ Population in São Tomé and Príncipe (1951-1981); Frank Luce (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University): Armed Struggle, the ILO and Labour Inspection: The Abolition of Forced Labour in Angola; Tobias Drehsen (University of Trier): The San and the Portuguese Military Campaign in the Angolan Decolonisation Conflict (1961-1974): Continuities of Slavery and Forced Labour.Afternoon Tea.Session Eight: 3.30-5 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre. Introduction: David Richardson (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull). Keynote Lecture: Toyin Falola (University of Texas, Austin).Dr. Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. He has received various awards and honours, including the Jean Holloway Award for Teaching Excellence, the Texas Exes Teaching Award, and the Ibn Khaldun Distinguished Award for Research Excellence, and the Distinguished Fellow, Ibadan Cultural Group. Toyin Falola has published numerous books, including Key Events in African History: A Reference Guide, Nationalism and African Intellectuals, and many edited books including Tradition and Change in Africa and African Writers and Readers. He is the co-editor of the Journal of African Economic History, Series Editor

of Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, and the Series Editor of the Culture and Customs of Africa by Greenwood Press.Break.7 pm to late: Conference Dinner at Two Rivers Restaurant at ‘The Deep’, which is one of the most spectacular aquariums in Europe. The award winning Deep is home to 40 sharks and over 3,500 fish, and is an easy 10 minute walk from the Wilberforce Institute along the Humber Estuary. Friday the 25th of September:Session Nine: 9.00-10.30 am, WISE Lecture Theatre: The Past in the Present: The Legacies of Slavery in Africa. Joël Noret (Centre d’Anthropologie Culturelle, Institut de Sociologie): Contrasts and Contestations in the Memory of Local Slavery in Southern Benin; Ella Keren (Open University of Israel): In the Chains of the Past: Slavery in the Collective Memory in Ghana; Nicodemus Fru Awasom and Ousman Bojang (University of the Gambia): Societal Sustenance of the Legacy of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on the Gambia.Session Ten: 9.00-10.30 am, WISE Video Conferencing Suite: The Past in the Present: Ending Slavery in Sudan? Elena Vezzadini (University of Bergen): ‘My Diggle belongs to those who haven’t read Plato’s Republic’: Colonial Administration and the Question of Slavery during the First 25 Years of Colonial Rule in the Sudan; Siddig Elzailaee (London Metropolitan University): Origin of Economic Marginalisation of the Nuba People of Sudan; Naomi Pendle (Wellington College, University of Oxford): Who Should Redeem Slaves: An Analysis of the Economics of Slave Redemption.Morning Tea.Session Eleven: 11.00 am-12.00 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre: Linking Past and Present in West Africa: Part One. Laura Murphy (Ithaca College): Slaves in the Family: African Domestic Slavery, Labour, and Kinship Past and Present; Benjamin Lawrance (University of California, Davis): Eradicating Shrine ‘Wives’ and Fishing ‘Boys’: Drafting Anti-Child Trafficking Legislation in West Africa (c. 1990-2007).Session Twelve: 11.00 am-12.00 pm, WISE Video Conferencing Suite: Migration and Governance in Africa: Part One. O.A. K’Akumu and W.H.A Olima (University of Nairobi): Colonial and Modern Nairobi: A Tale of Two Eras and One Master-Servant City; Hanan Sabea (American University in Cairo): Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: Recruiting, Contracts and Labour Migration in Tanzania and Egypt.Lunch.Session Thirteen: 1.00 pm-2.00 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre: Migration and Governance in Africa: Part Two. Ambe Njoh (University of South Florida): Urban Planning on the Making of Racially Segregated Towns in Colonial Africa; Darshan Vigneswaran (Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand): Birds of a Feather: Segregation and Immigration Control in Johannesburg.Session Fourteen: 1.00 pm-2.00 pm, WISE Video Conferencing Suite: Linking Past and Present in West Africa: Part Two. Mariusz Krasniewski (Polish Academy of Sciences): Ritual Slavery in West Africa: The ‘Trokosi’ Institution; Isidore Lobnibe (Western Oregon University): From Unfree Labourers to Commercial Farm Operators: A Paradox of Post-Colonial Agrarian Decline among Northern Ghanaian Migrants.Short Break.Session Fifteen: 2.10-3.40 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre. Chouki El Hamel (Arizona State University): British and French Anti-Slavery Societies and the Abolition of Slavery in Morocco; Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem (University of Nouakchott): ‘Bare-footed activists’ Against Chattel Slavery: Abolition, Bondage Vestiges and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Adam Mahamat (University of Ngaoundéré): Slaves Descendants in Northern Cameroon: Problem of Emancipation, Identity and Social Discrimination.Session Sixteen 2.10-3.40 pm, WISE Video Conferencing Suite: Voices of Slaves: Past and Present. Jeffrey Gunn (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University): The Power of the African Narrative and Fair Trade Movements: Parallel Between Late 18 th Century Freedom Narratives and 21st Century Child Soldier Autobiographies; Pietro Deandrea (University of Torino): Ghostly Voices: Narratives of Contemporary Slavery in the UK; Karlee Sapoznik (The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University): ‘He didn’t give me a choice. I said okay because I didn’t want to die’: Servile Marriage in Modern Day Somalia.Session Seventeen: 2.10-3.40 pm, Wilberforce House Education Room: Human Rights Activism and the ‘Lessons’ of History. David Wilkins (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull): Repairing Historical Wrongs in Africa: The Need for Holistic Frankness; Richard Burchill (University of Hull): International Human Rights Law and Africa: A Tool for the Eradication of Slavery?; Joel

Quirk (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull): Historical Inquiry as Contemporary Instruction: The Abolition of Slavery in Africa and the Americas. Afternoon Tea.Session Eighteen: 4.10-5.20 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre. Concluding Plenary Session: Historical Practices and Contemporary Problems. Kevin Bales (Free the Slaves and Wilberforce Institute): Ending Modern Slavery in Africa.Kevin Bales is President of Free the Slaves, the US sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, and Visiting Professor at the Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull. His book Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and published in ten languages. The film based on his book, which he co-wrote, won a Peabody Award and two Emmy Awards. He was awarded the Laura Smith Davenport Human Rights Award in 2005; the Judith Sargeant Murray Award for Human Rights in 2004; and the Human Rights Award of the University of Alberta in 2003. He has been a consultant to the UN Global Program on Human Trafficking, and has advised the US, British, Irish, Norwegian, and Nepali governments on slavery and human trafficking policy. Kevin Bales other recent works include Understanding Global Slavery, Ending Slavery: How We Will Free Today’s Slaves and The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today.Rhoda Howard-Hassman (Wilfrid Laurier University): Reparations to Africa.Dr Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann is Canada Research Chair in International Human Rights at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Global Studies and the Balsillie School of International Affairs. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2006 she was named the first Distinguished Scholar of Human Rights by the Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association. Rhoda Howard-Hassmann’s recent books include Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights and Reparations to Africa, along with co-edited works on Economic Rights in Canada and the United States and The Age of Apology: Facing up to the Past. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of African Studies, Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Citizenship Studies, Human Rights and the Global Economy, Human Rights and Human Welfare, Human Rights Quarterly, Human Rights Review, Journal of Human Rights, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Georgetown University Press Advancing Human Rights series, and the Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Human Rights.Session Nineteen: 5.20-5.30 pm, WISE Lecture Theatre. Summary and Concluding Remarks: Darshan Vigneswaran (Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand).”]

– 01 a 03 de Outubro de 2009 – Africa: In Search of Alternatives. Conferência Nordic Africa Days (NAD) 2009. Trondheim (Noruega). Oradores: Patrick Chabal e Henning Mankell. [“The conference is organised by Africa Network Norway, in close cooperation with the Nordic Africa Institute. It is interdisciplinary and open to researchers, master students and practitioners who apply research-based knowledge pertaining to African issues. More information will be made available at www.svt.ntnu.no/africanetwork/” “The global financial crisis has lately been on everyone’s lips. It began in 2007 with a liquidity crisis and the bursting of the US housing bubble, before it deepened and widened until the media proclaimed that ‘the world as we know it is going down!’ Official forecasts still project a worsening worldwide recession. Earlier projections suggested that Africa would not be too adversely affected, but the IMF now predicts that the continent will be hard hit. The global downturn affects Africa through reduced capital inflows, lower demand for its exports, low commodity prices, and reduced remittances. These developments combine with other challenges on the continent, associated with transnational movements, maladapted structures, and failed policies and ideologies that extend beyond the African context.However, recent years have been a period of unprecedented economic growth in many parts of Africa. Some countries experience more wealth and stability, as well as a stronger democratic trend that facilitate foreign investment and development. In turn, this spurs new debates regarding privatisation, diversification and the distribution and redistribution of wealth. Not the least, these debates concern energy consumption and resource management. Africa searches for alternatives: for new ways to foster development and claim its place in a global context, without destroying the natural environment.At the same time, ordinary people have their concerns regarding how to survive, handle illness and inequality, and bring meaning to their lives. Local discourses struggle to sustain people’s experiences of post-colonial Africa, as they intertwine and are co-produced with global practices

and discourses that challenge them in fundamental ways. These broader social trends are manifest in a variety of rich cultural expressions from language and ritual to fashion, film, and literature, including modern art and music.What are we to make of all this? NAD 2009 challenges researchers to focus on these efforts and strivings for something better and more fruitful, in their discussions of different areas of nature, society, and culture in Africa. In the current situation, it is important to gain knowledge of the dynamic and creative potential of the processes and phenomena we study, in order to strengthen people’s capacity to cope with crisis and facilitate growth. This claim rests not only on a sympathetic reading of contemporary Africa, but is inspired by calls for ‘robust knowledge’ – a growing trend in the philosophy of science. We therefore welcome engaged and forward-looking perspectives that aim to make a difference in the world.(… …) If you have any questions or enquiries, please contact Sigrid Damman – email sigridd@svt.ntnu.no – phone +47 73596342, or Ingrid Lehn – email Ingrid.lehn@svt.ntnu.no – phone +47 73596581”]

– 05 a 07 de Outubro de 2009 – Inventaire, Protection et Promotion des Biens Culturels Africains. Deuxième Congres Culturel Panafricain. Addis Abeba. [Incluirá, no subtema 7 (“Le rôle partenaire du secteur public et privé”), a comunicação Essor des actions mécènes et créativité artistique en Afrique, da autoria de Simão Souindoula, conselheiro principal do Ministério da Cultura de Angola. Segue-se um resumo dessa intervenção: “Espaces sociaux en voie de développement, les Etats africains affrontent, de ce fait, une nette insuffisance de possibilités de financement, satisfaisant, du secteur de la culture.L’une des solutions envisagées, invariablement, par les structures gouvernementales de l’ensemble de ces pays, les hommes de culture ou les artistes, est le recours au mécénat ou au partenariat, d’attache locale ou internationale.Ces actions sont déployées sous plusieurs modalités allant de dons ponctuels, aux achats de type «generosus» en passant par des subventions institutionnalisées ou des placements bancaires.Quant aux formules de partenariat, elles sont aussi variées. Elles vont du marketing pur, échange contre publicité, a des interventions de caractère social, plus porteur, liées aux questions de santé publique, a l’élévation du genre, ou a de véritables programmes-package de découverte et de promotion de jeunes talents.Certaines initiatives sont gérées, de commun accord, par des institutions mécènes et des associations d’écrivains ou d’artistes et artisans; d’autres projets sont administrés, directement, par les sociétés bienfaitrices, qui se réservent l’exclusivité de l’action culturelle menée.La stratégie engagée dans la recherche de financements mécènes ou d’appuis partenaires débouche, souvent, a l’obtention de concours croisés.Le panel des institutions et entreprises «amies des arts» s’est, ces dernières années, élargi, conséquence d’une plus grande ouverture, enregistrée sur le continent, a l’économie de marché, et a la fin des monopoles, c’est a dire, a la concurrence commerciale, a la fin des années 80.Les apports financiers, matériels et autres viennent, aujourd’hui, encore, de personnalités politiques qui contribuent la créativité artistique, a titre personnel ou institutionnel.Ceux-ceux proviennent, également, des organisations de coopération régionale africaine ou internationale, des organismes d’aide de type bilatéral ou multilatéral et des fondations.Enfin, les accords de partenariat sont, généralement, scelles avec des banques, des compagnies d’assurances, de sociétés pétrolières ou minières, de consortiums de téléphonie mobile, etc.L’ensemble de ces interventions est, globalement, assez substantiel et permet, aujourd’hui, d’enregistrer une vie culturelle relativement active dans plusieurs Etats africains avec une nette augmentation de publication d’oeuvres littéraires, de réalisation de films de fiction, d’expositions d’arts plastiques, d’édition de supports CD et DVD, de concerts musicaux, de spectacles de danse, de pièces de théâtre, etc.Aspects essentiels dans la croissance de la production des biens culturels en Afrique, les affluences mécènes et celles issues de modalités de partenariat divers, incontournables aujourd’hui, conditionneront, sans nul, l’avènement, tant attendue, de la Renaissance de l’Afrique.”]

– 08 e 09 de Outubro de 2009 – Diálogo Intercultural: Barreiras e Oportunidades (Encontro de perspectivas da ciência, da acção política e da intervenção social). Lisboa. Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL). [“A Comissão Organizadora do Colóquio Diálogo Intercultural: Barreiras e Oportunidades (Encontro de perspectivas da ciência, da acção politica e da intervenção social), convida professores, investigadores, estudantes, profissionais, membros de associações e instituições com interesse na

área da diversidade cultural e étnica a submeterem para apresentação – em formato de poster – os seus trabalhos.Pretendemos que esta sessão de posters seja um espaço onde os intervenientes possam trocar experiências sobre as diferentes problemáticas e desafios presentes nas várias áreas de trabalho e de interesse dos participantes, permitindo fazer um balanço sobre a investigação e a intervenção social.Encorajamos a submissão de trabalhos em áreas como: legislação, racismo, justiça, género, educação, planeamento urbano, emprego, outras, ...(...)Comissão Científica: Francisco Esteves (ISCTE-IUL), Jorge Vala (ICS-UL), Paula Castro (ISCTE-IUL), Manuela Barreto (CIS), Maria Benedicta Monteiro (ISCTE-IUL). Comissão Organizadora: Carla Esteves (ISCTE-IUL), João António (ISCTE-IUL), Maria Benedicta Monteiro (ISCTE-IUL), Miriam Rosa (ISCTE-IUL), Rita Correia (ISCTE-IUL), Rita Morais (ISCTE-IUL) e Rui Lopes (ICS-UL).”]

– 12 a 16 de Outubro de 2009 – Workshop on Writing for Scholarly Publishing. Makerere University, Kampala (Uganda). [“(… …) The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the 2009 edition of its Annual Writing Workshop for Scholarly Publishing. Three sessions of the workshop have been scheduled, one to be held in English, another in French and the third one in Portuguese. The English language edition is planned to take place in Kampala, Uganda, on the campus of Makerere University (…). It will bring together, 30 participants from across Africa who research in the English language.Scholarly writing and publishing among younger African researchers have been under considerable strain for some time now. The reasons for this state of affairs are multifaceted but are uniformly connected to the prolonged crises which the continent’s higher education system has been experiencing for the last two decades. Remedying the problem has become urgent in order to ensure that the presence of the African voice in the production of knowledge about the continent and other regions of the world is assured at the highest level of quality. As an institution with a long track record in scholarly publishing, and which has a mandate to project African voices through a variety of programmes, CODESRIA has increasingly been concerned with the deterioration of the quality of academic writing among the younger generation of scholars who have borne the brunt of the crises of the last two decades in African higher education. The Council has been particularly well-placed to track the magnitude of the problem through the regular assessment it carries out of contributions received from across Africa for consideration for publication in any one of the nine journals in its stable, the applications that are submitted for consideration for admission into its various training programmes, the regular feedback it solicits from sister institutions on the strengths and weaknesses of scholarly essays which they have occasion regularly to review, and the gaps in foundational training in the university system that currently affect capacities to muster a written argument, project an informed point of view, develop a presentational/analytic style, cite references correctly, and adequately prepare manuscripts for consideration for publication in scholarly outlets. It was with a view to remedying this situation that CODESRIA decided to launch its scholarly writing programme targeted at younger third and fourth generation African scholars.The workshop will feature presentations and practical demonstrations by seasoned scholars under whose mentorship, groups of advanced postgraduate students and younger scholars who are admitted to participate in the programme will be supported to upgrade the quality of their writing and publishing. Exercises will be offered to demonstrate different approaches to scholarly writing and publishing as follows:Scholarly Writing: 1. Presenting participants with the skills and requirements needed to write effectively taking full cognisance of the expectations of the scholarly community; 2. Familiarising participants with how to critically appraise the theoretical assumptions that underpin the related research on which they draw to inform their own research and writing; 3. Demonstrating familiarity with related scholarly literature and debates; 4. Determining and critically relating to methodologies employed in scholarly research and writing: 5. Determining and critically relating to the arguments of authors on whose work participants draw to make their own arguments; and 6. Determining the contribution to knowledge of a piece of scholarly writing.Scholarly Publishing: 1. Building a proper understanding of the publishing process with a view to ensuring that manuscripts are prepared and presented in a manner that facilitates the publishing process and which, in so doing, improves their chances for selection in scholarly publishing outlets. Attention will be drawn to a variety of issues ranging from adherence to style guidelines to

choosing which work is best fitted to a particular scholarly publishing format, as well as suggestions on how to revise theses and dissertations into publishable manuscripts; 2. Presentations on how to document a manuscript for publication, including especially different methods of referencing, the use of quotations, and the presentation of source materials used; and 3. Presentations on the interface between the style adopted for a written scholarly work and the audience that is targeted for its consumption. Here, attention will also be given to the best approaches to disseminating and promoting a scientific publication using both the author’s and publisher’s networks (review outlets, conferences, symposium and book dissemination forums, teaching curriculum, electronic and print forums etc.) in order to generate debate and promote sales.Workshop Framework: The workshop will be organised over a period of five working (days) and will involve a series of lectures and practical work interspersed with open discussions on the key issues in scholarly publishing. The programme will be coordinated by a designated director assisted by invited resource persons with a track record in scholarly publishing. A post-workshop monitoring exercise will provide participants an opportunity to have their work reviewed and assessed by identified resource persons for a predetermined length of time after the workshop.Target Population: (…) – Advanced postgraduates working on their dissertations or theses in an African university; – Researchers who completed their postgraduate studies at any time during the last five years and are presently pursuing a teaching and/or research career in an African university or research centre; and – Former laureates of CODESRIA institutes and methodological workshops interested in updating their skills.(… …) Admission to participate in the workshop will be limited to 30 persons to allow for an intensive session.(...) E-mail: Writing.Workshop@codesria.sn Web Site: www.codesria.org”]

– 15 e 16 de Outubro de 2009 – Colóquio Internacional Sociedades Rurais Africanas: Estruturas fundiárias e dinâmicas sociais. Lajedos, concelho de Porto Novo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde). [“O debate sobre a evolução do ‘campo’ no mundo moderno começou há mais de três séculos. Da fisiocracia aos recentes pareceres do Banco Mundial, reabilitando a pastorícia em África, o espectro dos juízos de valor sobre o papel das sociedades tradicionais – agentes ou travões da acumulação de capital – percorreu todas as tonalidades.Mas terão sido alguma vez as sociedades rurais verdadeiras sociedades tradicionais, tal como tantos historiadores e etnólogos frequentemente modelizaram? E existirão verdadeiramente sociedades rurais no mundo moderno, a ponto de justificar um outro tipo de modelos, os da ‘dualidade’?A trajectória destas evoluções parece ainda mais confusa em regiões tocadas perversamente pela ‘modernidade’, como é o caso dos antigos territórios coloniais e periféricos. Em África e, em menor escala, na Ásia tropical os poderes coloniais introduziram frequentemente tecnologias, normas de propriedade e de organização fundiária que alteraram, sem o destruir totalmente, o anterior tecido rural. Ao contrário do que aconteceu maioritariamente na Europa e nas Américas, a integração no mercado mundial não fez tábua rasa das antigas classes agrárias. As noções de ‘reforma agrária’ ou ‘revolução verde’, tão popularizadas nas descrições históricas doutros continentes, ganham aqui evidentemente um outro conteúdo.Conhecer um pouco melhor os resultados desta evolução nos territórios subsaarianos – relativamente à qual a sociologia foi obrigada a criar o neologismo bárbaro de ‘rurbanidade’, por exemplo – é o objectivo deste encontro. Nele se espera que as contribuições de diferentes ciências sociais possam ajudar a perspectivar o que a ‘bolha’ bolsista das matérias-primas do verão de 2008 teve pelo menos o mérito de tornar claro: que o futuro próximo da Terra passa, cada vez mais, pela terra.Formato do Colóquio: – Conferência de abertura; – Painéis temáticos com workshops para debates. (...) Comunicações: (...) As comunicações aprovadas serão publicadas em moldes a definir pela Comissão Científica.Comissão Organizadora: Elvira Mea (CEAUP), Leão Lopes (Atelier MAR), José Évora (Instituto do Arquivo Histórico de C. Verde / CEAUP), Maciel Morais Santos (CEAUP).Apoios: ATELIER MAR – Cabo Verde; FCT – Portugal. Para mais informações contactar o CEAUP: Centro de Estudos Africanos U.P. – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto – Via Panorâmica s/n – 4150-564 Porto. Telf./fax: +351 22 607 71 41. e-mail: ceaup@letras.up.pt

Ou Dr. José Évora – Instituto do Arquivo Histórico de Cabo Verde. Email: jose9953836@hotmail.com”]

– 18 a 20 de Outubro de 2009 – Writing the History of Women in Africa: Past, Present and Future. CODESRIA Conference. Nairobi. [“The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) is pleased to announce the second edition of its annual conference on critical themes in the history of Africa. The conference is part of CODESRIA’s initiative aimed at achieving the triple objective of promoting the study of the history of Africa, mobilising support for the discipline of history in African higher education, and networking African historians both for these purposes and also as a worthy cause in its own right. Packaged under the label ‘SOS African History’, the initiative is motivated by the strongly held view of the CODESRIA membership that the current conjuncture in the development of Africa marks a moment when the continent is, more than ever before, in need of history and historians. Given the fact that across Africa, engagement with the history of the continent, the financing of historical research, and the teaching of History are severely endangered, the CODESRIA SOS African History initiative is designed to galvanise local and continental responses that could add up to stem and reverse the tide of decline that has been underway for at least two decades.The inaugural conference within the CODESRIA initiative on African History was held on the 27th-29th of October 2008 in Kampala, Uganda, on the theme: Re-Reading the History and Historiography of Domination and Resistance in Africa. The second conference scheduled for Nairobi, Kenya will have as its theme: Writing the History of Women in Africa: Past, Present and Future. The study of women in Africa has in recent years experienced a great leap forward in terms of output, theoretical development and visibility. The changes which can be principally attributed to the adoption of new frameworks such as life-histories, oral histories, genealogies, religious records, cultural lore and fables, and a focus on women’s resistance have challenged the silences on African women in African history. The new approaches, though not without their limitations, have stimulated a renewed interest in the study and writing of the history of African women; and are, more importantly, acting as a catalyst for the revitalisation of African history and historiography by stimulating a re-examination of familiar themes in African history, such as African labour history and class relations, colonialism, African economic history, African elites and African religions.Despite the success of efforts to restore women to African history, African women’s history is still largely absent from mainstream African historiography and is consistently confronted with the possibility of disciplinary provincialism. Furthermore, limitations of scope to the 19th and 20th centuries, and the absence of studies on women before the 1800s, restrict efforts to integrate and properly situate women’s history into African history. However, African women are making their own history and writing it. They are also actors in the making of African history. Part of this has been captured in a number of publications including the “Women Writing Africa series”. The writing of the history of African women is also not the exclusive preserve of historians as contributions from anthropology, political science, gender studies and sociology have widened the scope and deepened the content of African women’s history.The continued marginalisation of African women in African historiography, despite advances in theory and method, is a source of concern; especially at a time when African history itself is facing the threat of obscurity, giving the reduced significance of its research works on other historiographies and the severely endangered nature of popular and academic engagement with history on the continent, due to poor financing of historical research, which itself is a consequence of a devaluation of the discipline in favour of more ‘marketable’ ones. What then can be done to move the history of women in Africa beyond the stage of compensation or that of writing women into African history? What lessons can be learnt from the greater attention in African history to craft, theory and diverse sources linking the past to the present that has been observed in recent years? What can be learnt from theoretical advancements in women’s studies in anthropology, sociology and political science? Through a critical examination of recent developments in the history and historiography of African women, African scholars are being invited to engage with issues of representation, sources, methodology and periodisation, class, labour and economic history, and political mobilisation in African history. They are most especially encouraged to assess the consequences of recent theoretical developments in the history and historiography of African women, for the future of African history, and the rescuing of the study of Africa from faulty analogies drawn from a unilineal reading of the history of Europe and the United States of America. The conference is expected to act as a forum for assessing the state-of-the art in African women’s history; that is, draw attention to new questions, reassess old ones

and suggest new ways of proceeding in African women’s history in particular, and African history in general.”]

– 21 a 24 de Outubro de 2009 – Towards a Democratic Cosmopolis: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition. York University, Toronto. [“Founders College, together with the Mariano A. Elia Chair in Italian Canadian Studies and York University’s U50 committee are organizing a conference titled Towards a Democratic Cosmopolis: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition. This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from various relevant disciplines from different parts of the world to advance our understanding of the relocation process of a broad range of ethnocultural groups in the context of citizenship (both national and global), pluralism and diasporas to determine how to encourage the values of democratic cosmopolitanism.” “Call for Papers: The conference Towards a Democratic Cosmopolis: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition will provide a unique opportunity to understand the emerging cosmopolitan realities of contemporary Toronto – the region known as the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) – and other cosmopolitan cities, such as London, New York, Honk Kong, Buenos Aires, and Paris. Over time these geographical areas have attracted large number of migrants and immigrants in search of better economic, political, and cultural conditions. The GTA and other world-class cities continue to serve as sites for the relocation experiences of peoples from a wide range of different ethnic, social, cultural, religious, political, and other backgrounds. The changing dynamic of migrations and immigrations in the GTA, for example, are essential for contextualizing discussions of citizenship, recognition, and identity in the broader environment of resettlement through the use of an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference will bring together scholars to discuss and debate the values of ‘democratic cosmopolitanism’.

One of the questions to be addressed by the conference is the extent to which members of resettled groups – both migrants/immigrants as well as their descendants – feel they are part of a larger community (as Canadians) in electoral participation as well as other aspects of exercising citizenship.Furthermore, do those resettled in the GTA and other cities in Canada and elsewhere shape their identities and experience recognition as citizens in terms of a sense of ‘place’ and belonging or does a new form of global citizenship arise as a consequence of multicentred Diasporas and does it need to be integrated into our understanding of an emerging cosmopolitanism? What kinds of identities have been formed, how connected are they to each other within a community of origin and resettlement, and how do they perceive a larger community? Do ethnocultural groups feel they are recognized? Does settlement and life in the GTA and other large cities help them in terms of available ethnic spaces and places and do broader societal values of a cosmopolitan nature promote a sense of belonging and inclusion?

The conference will consider contemporary and historical aspects of the Diasporas of groups in the GTA and other cities who have migrated for a variety of reasons including economic opportunity and political persecution. Contributors to the conference are encouraged to submit their papers for publication in a volume that will be a unique contribution to the growing field of diversity studies and the challenges of building inclusive societies. This will be a four day conference with events being held at Founders College, York University on October 22nd and 23rd, and off-campus events taking place in Toronto at the Italian Cultural Institute on October 21st and in the GTA on October 24th. The sessions to be held in venues in Toronto and the GTA will allow for participation of different community groups and the interaction between them and members of York University.

(…) The conference is part of the series of Diaspora, Citizenship, and Recognition. All papers (…) presented at the conference will be published online. Selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume (30-35 page chapters).

Please visit http://www.yorku.ca/founders/FoundersEvents.htm for more information on the conference and its organizers. Organizing Committee: Prof. Mauro Buccheri, Prof. Robert Kenedy, Prof. Fahim Quadir, Prof. Gabriele Scardellato.”]

– 24 de Outubro de 2009 – Interdisciplinary AiM Symposium on the Realities and Representations of Reconciliation in Africa. Hosted jointly by the Centre of African Studies (CAS) at the University of Edinburgh and the Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival. Edimburgo. [“Call for Papers: At Africa in Motion 2009 we plan to incorporate a number of screenings and events that confront issues of trauma, conflict and reconciliation. This symposium aims to foster discussion and understanding of old and new research dealing with the various realities and representations of reconciliation in Africa. A number of recent films, novels and other forms of art have sought to

represent in varying ways the traumas of conflict and war of the postcolonial African states and the attempts of reconciliation commissions towards peace, truth, justice and forgiveness. We want to touch on the problems and challenges facing artistic representations of these complex topics as well as the different contexts and consequences of it in Africa and in its diasporas.(… …)To register for attending the symposium, please email symposium@africa-in-motion.org.uk. Registration fees for attending only are £10 for students and £20 for non-students, including lunch and refreshments.For more information on the Africa in Motion film festival please visit www.africa-in-motion.org.uk. For further information on the Centre of African Studies at Edinburgh University please visit www.cas.ed.ac.uk.AiM Symposium Organising Committee (Africa in Motion Film Festival – 22 Oct to 1 Nov 2009): www.africa-in-motion.org.uk”]

– 26 e 27 de Outubro de 2009 – Migrations, Traditions and Modernities: Comparing Ethnographies. Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) da Universidade de Lisboa. Organização: ICS & CRIA; Ramon Sarró, José Mapril e Irene Rodrigues. [“Anthropology and modernity are old travel companions. Since the beginning of the discipline, anthropologists have been confronted with the several modes people adapt to, or resist, the worlds produced by the adoption of lifestyles called ‘modernity’ in the west. In the last twenty years, this ‘modernizing’ concern has become entangled with debates around cultural ‘globalization’, ‘authenticity’ and ‘development’. Along with this enlargement of scope came a new problematic not so much addressed at knowing how societies modernize, but rather how they understand and appropriate ‘modernity’. In whatever form it appears, the ‘indigenization’ of modernity produces a historical self-awareness that is often reflected in the question: ‘how can we be modern without losing our sense of ourselves?’ The question entails notions of ‘modernity’ and ‘tradition’, as well as contested images and beliefs regarding how life should ideally be. In whatever case, ‘modern life’ appears as a disruption vis-à-vis tradition, more often than not studied by anthropologists along the framework of temporality.

Today, however, it becomes clearer and clearer that this ‘disruption’ is produced not only by chronological transformations but also by topographic mobility. Both at the popular level of dreams about migration and at the institutional level do we find the notion that a progressive modernization of economies, domestic units, religion, nations and citizens may be achieved by fostering migration. At the same time, paradoxically, migrations are frequently thought of as a path for international dissemination of ‘traditional’ lives, sometimes in order to preserve, valorise and commoditize them. Thus, more than erase it, migrations seem to offer new meanings and contexts to the old dichotomy of ‘traditional’ vs. ‘modern’.

In the workshop ‘Migrations, Traditions and Modernities: Comparing Ethnographies’ we want to ethnographically explore the relationship between modernity and migratory phenomena, looking at the actors who create/ reproduce discourses and images about modernity and tradition along transnational lines, the channels of diffusion, the politization of these elements, and how they affect local lives in different parts of the world. We (…) hope to cover a wide range of ethnographic situations that should give rise to a very enriching anthropological dialogue.

The workshop will take place at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, on 26 and 27 October 2009, and it will include the following keynotes: Fillipo Osella (University of Sussex), Joan D’Alisera (University of Arkansas) and Frank Pieke (University of Oxford). Speakers will have up to 20 minutes for presentation followed by an open discussion. The official language will be English.”]

– 26 a 30 de Outubro de 2009 – Formation des formateurs: Méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives dans la recherche en sciences sociales. CODESRIA, Dakar. [“Etes-vous enseignant dans une université africaine? Avez-vous la responsabilité d'enseigner les méthodes de recherche? Si oui, cette annonce de programme vous est destinée.

Le Conseil pour le développement de la recherche en sciences sociales en Afrique a le plaisir d’annoncer une initiative destinée aux membres de la communauté africaine de recherche responsables dans leurs universités de l’enseignement des méthodes de recherche en sciences sociales. Pendant la dernière décennie et demie, en connaissance des crises aux aspects multiples auxquelles sont confrontées le système africain d’enseignement supérieur en général et les universités en particulier, le CODESRIA s’est investi en offrant aux étudiants et aux professionnels à mi-carrière des opportunités de formation dans les méthodes qualitatives et quantitatives de recherche. La première phase de ces opportunités de formation était centrée sur les méthodes de

recherche quantitative. Au cours des dernières années, l’accent a été déplacé vers les méthodes de recherche qualitative. Ces formations étaient organisées en séminaires de recherche avancée pendant lesquels les participants étaient familiarisés avec différentes techniques méthodologiques, leurs origines et leur philosophie scientifique. Le CODESRIA organise sept séminaires méthodologiques sur la base d’un par sous-région, un spécialement dévolu au Nigéria, et un pour les pays sortant de situations de conflits. Dans le contexte de la décentralisation de la gestion des ateliers dans différentes universités et institutions de recherche avancée, le Conseil propose d’organiser un atelier méthodologique de formation des formateurs qui rassemble ceux qui sont chargés de familiariser d’autres avec les compétences de base dont ils ont besoin pour être de bons chercheurs.

La logique de tous les ateliers méthodologiques du CODESRIA reste la même. Comme terrain de connaissance, les méthodes quantitative et qualitative ont un statut de spécialité et il n’est pas acquis à tous les chercheurs en sciences sociales de maitriser entièrement à la fois les détails techniques et les bases philosophiques. Egalement, le domaine de méthodes de recherche en sciences sociales, à la fois quantitative et qualitative, a connu une grande évolution marquée par une amélioration dans les outils et techniques disponibles. Cependant, historiquement, c’est un domaine pédagogique relativement faible dans la recherche en sciences sociales africaine; la faiblesse est accentuée par la fuite massive des cerveaux qu’a connu le système universitaire à la suite des crises. Cette circonstance a constitué un désavantage majeur pour la jeune génération de chercheurs en sciences sociales et s’est reflétée dans la qualité de la recherche entreprise. La réduction de cet écart devint une préoccupation urgente; le programme de formation des formateurs représente la dernière dans la série d’interventions développées par le CODESRIA et il est lancé dans le contexte d’interconnexion organique des objectifs de recherche des universités et la mission et la stratégie programmatique du Conseil.

La session 2009 de l’atelier de formation des formateurs réunira jusqu’à 25 participants. Les langues de travail seront le français et l’anglais. En plus des présentations qui seront faites par des personnes ressources, l’atelier sera structuré comme un forum d’étroite interaction et de réseautage entre les participants de manière qu'au-delà de la session formelle de formation, ils soient capables de continuer de partager leurs expériences. Des exercices pratiques de lecture seront organisés. Chaque session sera dirigée par un responsable assisté par une personne ressource. La session durera cinq jours. Chaque participant aura accès aux outils les plus récents – électroniques et non électroniques – disponibles sur les méthodes de recherche; des présentations seront faites sur la philosophie de la science.”]

– 29 a 31 de Outubro de 2009 –VII Congresso Internacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural. Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (FLUP). [Convocatória: “Objectivos: A AGIR – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural – vai organizar o VII Congresso Internacional de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural, pelo sétimo ano consecutivo. O referido Congresso terá lugar na cidade do Porto. As outras edições sucederam-se em Cabeceiras de Bastos (2003), Paredes de Coura (2004), Elvas (2005) e Guadalajara (México) (2006), Maia (2007) e Melide (Espanha) (2008).As edições anteriores permitiram manter a transversalidade não só de conhecimentos, mas também de contactos, interagindo com diferentes áreas de investigação, com pesquisadores, técnicos e estudantes tanto com teor específicos, como holísticos, unindo sinergias, com o aprender, o ensinar, o aprender a aprender, o construir, ou até mesmo o desconstruir para construir novamente. Portanto é um foro de debate, de exposição de ideias, resultados de investigação, através da utilização de metodologias qualitativas e quantitativas, com conteúdos teóricos, mas também práticos ou interventivos.A proposta deste Congresso não se reduz, por isso, a um simples crescimento económico, uma vez que o desenvolvimento para ser autêntico tem que ser completo, ou seja, fomentar o bem-estar a todo o homem e mulher. Trata-se, por conseguinte, de associar os valores do desenvolvimento social e cultural com as necessidades básicas que integram a liberdade, a justiça, a equidade, a ética e a auto-estima.Por último, refira-se que o VII Congresso de Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural será estruturado com mesas de comunicações, debates e um programa cultural.Temas: – Cidades Sustentáveis; – Crenças, Costumes e Tradições; – Consumo e Estilos de Vida; – Desenvolvimento e Sustentabilidade; – Educação e Desigualdade; – Práticas e promoção da Saúde; – Globalização, Identidade e Diversidade; – Migrações, Etnicidades e Minorias; – Ordenamento dos Territórios Metropolitanos; – Renovação Urbana, Parques Temáticos e Espaços Públicos; –

Património, Turismo e Intervenção; – Políticas e Desenvolvimento; – Violência, Exclusão Social e JustiçaComissão Científica: David Coronado (Universidad de Guadalajara, México); Dulce Magalhães (Instituto de Sociologia/ Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Ester Massó Guijarro (Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade de Granada, Espanha); Fausto Ferreira (Universidade Lusíada, Portugal); Fernando Cruz (Instituto de Sociologia/ Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Graciela Sánchez Guevara (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, México); João Antunes (Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); João Teixeira Lopes (Instituto de Sociologia/ Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Júlia Petrus da Cruz (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Brasil/ Universidade de Barcelona, Espanha); Maria das Mercês Cabrita de Mendonça Covas (Universidade do Algarve – Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Departamento de Ciências da Educação e Sociologia – Portugal); Miguel Henrique da Cunha Filho (Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil/ Universidad de Barcelona, Espanha); Paulo de Carvalho (Instituto de Estudos Geográficos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal); Rosa Martha Romo Beltrán (Universidad de Guadalajara, México); Santiago Prado Conde (Grupo de Investigación EMIGRA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona/ Museo Etnolóxico, Ribadavia, Espanha); Virgílio Borges (Instituto de Sociologia/ Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal); Xerardo Pereiro Pérez (CETRAD/ Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal)Resumos e comunicações: Resumos: Os resumos deverão ser elaborados em duas das línguas oficiais do Congresso (Português, Espanhol, Inglês e Francês) e deverão conter 250 a 350 palavras, título provisório, tema, nome do/a autor/a, instituição, palavras-chave. O texto do resumo deverá indicar sumariamente os objectivos da comunicação, enquadramento teórico, metodologia empregue na investigação e resultados eventualmente obtidos.Envio do resumo por e-mail (em alternativa: disquete ou CD-Rom), até 20 de Setembro de 2009.Apresentação dos textos (resumos e comunicações): Word 97/2000/XP; Times New Roman; tamanho 12; espaçamento entre linhas de 1,5 linhas.Comunicações escritas: Título definitivo, nome do/a autor/a, instituição, palavras-chave, referências bibliográficas, até 30 páginas A4, em disquete/CD-Rom ou e-mail, Word 97/2000/XP, Times New Roman, tamanho 12, espaçamento entre linhas de 1,5 linhas, margens de 3 cm.Envio das comunicações escritas por e-mail (em alternativa: disquete ou CD-Rom), até 29 de Outubro de 2009.Comunicações orais: serão seleccionados para apresentações orais com duração mínima de 12 minutos, os resumos que obedeçam aos requisitos gerais enunciados para os mesmos e cujos/as participantes se encontrem inscritos/as no evento, apenas para esta modalidade, até 20 de Setembro de 2009.Outras informações: – Para todas as apresentações orais serão disponibilizados os seguintes meios: projector multimédia e computador, projector de diapositivos e retroprojector de acetatos. – A avaliação dos resumos será feita pela Comissão Científica e os resumos seleccionados serão publicados nas actas do Congresso. Os/as autores/as com resumos seleccionados serão informados/as por e-mail da aceitação dos mesmos. – A Comissão Organizadora informa ainda que reserva a aceitação definitiva dos resumos a pessoas inscritas no mesmo. Mais informa que não dispõe de recursos para financiar os/as participantes, pelo que solicita aos/às mesmos/as que providenciem recursos, para garantir a sua vinda.Inscrição (até 15 de Setembro): – Associados/as: 20 euros; – Membros do Instituto de Sociologia (FLUP): 20 euros; – Participantes com comunicação: 40 euros; – Participantes sem comunicação: 20 euros; – Estudantes de licenciatura: 7,50 euros.Inscrição (após 15 de Setembro): – Associados/as: 25 euros; – Membros do Instituto de Sociologia (FLUP): 25 euros; – Participantes com comunicação: 50 euros; – Participantes sem comunicação: 30 euros; – Estudantes de licenciatura: 12,50 euros.

Transferência bancária: AGIR – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural – NIB: 0035 0666 000809 51030 20 – IBAN: PT50003506660008095103020 – BIC: CGDIPTPL – Banco: Caixa Geral de Depósitos

Correio postal ou vale postal: AGIR – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-cultural – Apartado 4021 – 4000-101 Porto – PortugalFormulário de inscrição (CIIDSC7): – Nome; – Morada; – Cód. Postal; – Localidade; – País; – Tel. n.º; – E-mail; – Data de Nascimento; – NIF; – Habilitações Literárias; – Profissão/ Ocupação; – Instituição Representada; – Estudante (Sim/ Não); – Curso/ Universidade; – Título Provisório da Comunicação; – Tema do Congresso; – Equipamento necessário; – Modo de pagamento; – Data de Inscrição; – Só apresentação oral (Sim/ Não); – Só comunicação escrita (Sim /Não); –

Comunicação escrita e apresentação oral (Sim/ Não); – Associado/a da AGIR (Sim/ Não); – Novos/as associados/as: Desejo que a minha inscrição seja convertida automaticamente no pagamento das taxas de inscrição e anuidade de associado (total: 40 euros) na Associação AGIR (válida por 12 meses) (Sim/ Não)Enviar: AGIR – Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Sócio-Cultural – Apartado 4021 – 4000-101 Porto – Portugalou agir.associacao@gmail.com”]

– 30 e 31 de Outubro de 2009. Africans in Europe in the long twentieth century: Transnationalism, translation and transfer. Universidade de Liverpool. [“The past few years have seen a flowering of historical research on Africans in Europe and the growth of new networks of scholarship on the subject. Most of this work acknowledges that as colonial or ex-colonial subjects, as migrants, and as members of a global population for whom a common identity and fate were increasingly claimed in terms of diaspora, Africans often moved from one mono- or plurilingual context/ contact zone into another. This could be the result of physical relocations, of a transfer of administrative jurisdiction over them from one colonial power to another (as after 1918), or indeed of participation in transnational literary and political networks. But much current research remains limited to particular national metropolitan contexts, their languages and institutions, with the themes of transnationalism and translation addressed largely through triangulations between Africa, Black America and the respective country of ‘settlement’. The purpose of this conference is to bring together new research and provoke discussion around those moments where Africans found themselves at the interface between European cultures, asking about the implications for subjectivity and everyday life as well as for literary and political practice of having to deal with and through different languages and cultural practices.”]

– 13 a 15 de Novembro de 2009 – Networks: The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century . The Third World Culturelink. Zagrebe (Croácia). [Incluirá, na sessão 4 (“Evolving Networking Culture”), a comunicação Bantulink: Uma rede pela identidade, diversidade e interculturalidade, de Simão Souindoula, o director de Bantulink. Resumo: “Plenamente conscientes da notável eficácia, bem provada, das redes profissionais, e inspirando-se do programa croata Culturelink, especialistas africanos engajaram, em Outubro de 2005, em Libreville, no Gabão, sede do Centro Internacional das Civilizações Bantu, a constituição de um quadro de trabalho, em network, denominado Rede Internacional pela Promoção, Identidade e Diversidade das Culturas Bantu, em sigla, Bantulink.Concebida como uma estrutura de produção e de difusão cientifica, BL permitiu, graças a uma larga estratégia de divulgação, a publicação em dezenas de websites, de uma centena de trabalhos, em português, espanhol, francês e inglês, relativos a aspectos ligados à extraordinária história das migrações dos povos bantu, às afinidades e singularidades das suas línguas, às similitudes e particularidades do seu comportamento antropológico, e aos contactos civilizacionais intra- e extracontinentais que eles estabeleceram.Esta acção, hoje animada a partir de Luanda, em Angola, cujo sucesso é largamente tributário das prodigiosas facilidades que oferece a Internet, permitiu de registar diversos resultados, tais como um nítido desenvolvimento de trocas documentárias e de informações, um aumento de discussões científicas, um incremento de pedidos de dados da parte de estudantes, um acrescentamento de publicação de artigos, na persistente declinação tradicional, em várias revistas e jornais, assim que a participação a numerosas reuniões e intervenções internacionais.O balanço efectuado é, portanto, largamente, positivo e confirma a justeza do lançamento deste programa cujas perspectivas anunciam-se muito encorajantes.O desenvolvimento de Bantulink atesta, incontestavelmente, o grande trunfo que constitua, hoje, o trabalho e a publicação em rede Internet, opção, a todos pontos de vista, mais racional, que revela essencial, pela afirmação da identidade, da diversidade dos diálogos culturais, conjunto de valores ligados que contribuirão, sem dúvida, a conter o choque das civilizações, cujos dramáticos primeiros efeitos foram registados logo no advento deste novo século.”]

– 23 e 24 de Novembro de 2009 – Mobility, Science and Culture. Centro de Investigação em Ciências Sociais do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade do Minho. Braga (Portugal). [“The international mobility of scientists has become one important object of research in the social sciences. Researchers from a variety of disciplines are showing a growing interest on this subject, which has also become a central issue for European institutions committed to implementing a European market for research.

Scientific mobility is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, migrations of qualified professionals have been the focus of scientific and political attention since the 1960s, this early interest being driven by fears of a potential ‘brain drain’. Nowadays the ‘brain drain’ rhetoric has been mostly abandoned, even though it still carries considerable weight in journalistic discourse. The mobility of scientists is accepted as a normal practice in a globalized world and is acknowledged as a multidimensional phenomenon that can longer sustain linear approaches that ignore its inherent complexity.Organized under the auspices of the research project ‘Mobiscience’, the seminar ‘Mobility, Science and Culture’ aims to:1.1. Act as a forum of discussion on topics that are relevant for a better understanding of the international mobility of scientists, as well as on the most appropriate methods to address it.

2.2. Bring together researchers, from different disciplinary fields, who are interested in scientific mobility, proposing the interaction between mobility and culture as a central theme for debate. This proposal is based on the recognition that, although this area is experiencing considerable growth, the dispersion of interests and approaches (may) result in the absence of focal research questions that can mobilize the concerted efforts of the interested community.

3.3. Contribute to the development of scientific mobility as a research area and, particularly, to a greater incorporation of contextual/cultural dimensions in mobility studies.(… …)Paper (…) publication (…). Concerning written texts we accept it in English, Portuguese, Spanish or French.Language of the seminar: English.Use this contact for further information: mobiscience@gmail.com”] Este seminário insere-se no âmbito do projecto Mobiscience (www.mobiscienceportugal.com).

– 23 a 25 de Novembro de 2009 – Gender and Sports in Africa’s Development. 2009 Gender Symposium. Cairo. [“In line with its mandate of developing, promoting, consolidating, and disseminating the highest quality of research on and about Africa, the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) will hold a Gender Symposium from November 23rd to 25th in Cairo, Egypt. The Gender Symposium is an annual event that provides a platform for gender-focused debates. The theme for the 2009 symposium is Gender and Sports in Africa’s Development.In the period since the beginning of the 1990s, CODESRIA has been at the forefront of the quest to harness the efforts of African scholars in both extending the frontiers of knowledge production around issues of gender, and doing so in a manner that ensures that for as many scholars as are active in its networks and at other African sites of scholarly work, gender is integrated into their frames of analyses and modes of intervention. This has been done in line with the Council’s institutional commitment, integral to its Charter mandate, to produce knowledge that is not only anchored in the realities of the African continent, but which also contributes to the progressive transformation of livelihoods; the conscious pursuit of gender equality and inter-generational dialogues; and the harnessing of multidisciplinary perspectives. The results which have been accumulated from the experience of the Council and other like-minded institutions have, at one level, culminated in an efflorescence of studies on various aspects of the gender dynamics of development, an expansion in the community of African scholars with an active interest in gender research, the networking of that community on a sub-regional and pan-African scale, and the projection of the voices of its members on a global scale.At another level, however, few will doubt that for all the progress which has been made in promoting the idea of the centrality of gender to the robustness of any social research and the completeness of any project of social transformation, a considerable amount of work still remains to be done. The challenges that are posed are many but, in summary, could be said to centre around the need to consolidate the many critiques of development that have been made from various gender – and feminist – perspectives into a comprehensive, internally coherent and consistent set of alternatives on the basis of which further advances in theory, method and praxis could be achieved. Engendering African development requires close attention not only to the analytical tools of the researcher but also to the production of a gendered critique of development that questions the very foundations on which socio-economic and political processes in Africa rest. Such a critique is a pre-requisite for the advancement of new theoretical approaches and policy instruments. In sum, what is called for today is a complete paradigm shift for which new scholarship will be necessary.

Different authors have identified different entry points for the developmental project they have in mind for Africa but these differences need not detain us here for now. What is really important to note is that it is inconceivable that the project of democratic development, however defined, can ever be successfully built without a full integration of gender into the equation. And it is precisely here that the deficits have been most in evidence in spite of all official declarations committing governments to the promotion of the rights of women and the equality of men and women. The dawn of the contemporary processes of globalisation initially fuelled widespread optimism that promised new opportunities for the expansion of the frontiers of women’s rights; several years after, this optimism has been tempered and mitigated as much by the disempowering elements thrown up by the global age as by the uneven distribution of the opportunities that have been associated with it. Particularly worthy of note in this regard are the severe limits imposed on the expansion of social citizenship by the neo-liberal ideological and policy moorings of contemporary globalisation. The sporting fraternity as global playing field, has not been spared this chequered character. While sport presents an opportunity for the participation of Africa’s men and women in the development process, locally and with global implications, such participation is not without its own problems, however, that require us to apply the gender lens to the reading of the natural twin processes of play and development, and their applicability and place in the context of Africa.Sports is an arena that is uniquely gendered, differentiating as it does between men and women, boys and girls, in ways that have largely come to be accepted by many societies. Not only are most sporting activities organised along dual terms, they also set the competitive standards differently according to biological sex, with the female standard usually lower than that of the male. Golf is a case in point; as are field sports such as high and long jump. Over time and with the commercialization of sports globally, this differentiation has translated into a hierarchy in the financial value ascribed to sports where female sports score lower on the financial scale. By the same token, remuneration in the sporting field tends to be lower for females while the males are paid more. Similarly, male sports arguably enjoy more attention and, therefore, reputation and national/ continental value than do female sports. And yet for all these differences, the sporting arena retains its attraction for the gendered democratic developmental project. Most sporting activities offer opportunities for inclusive participation irrespective of gender, class, race, literacy, and other otherwise marginalising attributes. A lot of sporting activities have also contributed to the development of individuals, communities, countries, and the African continent in various ways, in recent times. At a political level, sport in Africa has made possible the renewal and expression of a continental African identity, especially with the upcoming Soccer World Cup in 2010, the first Soccer World Cup to be held in Africa. Packaged as a continental event, it has been described as ‘an African journey of hope’ towards freedom from war, tyranny, divisions, hunger, and the denial of human dignity. The 2010 event is important not only because soccer, in some places referred to as football, is a popular sport in Africa and has become an integral part of the African cultural landscape; but also because it arguably enjoys the largest following worldwide, and is immensely economically lucrative. To what extent then, does soccer, and all other sports, present as real possibilities for an engendered African developmental project?A lot of scholarship on sports has focused on its local/global business dimensions; its political importance; and as performance. Research into sports also offers interesting possibilities for exploring intricate gender dynamics in the evolution and development of societies. This is because sport is often played out beyond the confines of the playing fields. Sport, like most aspects of play, is an element of culture with a significant role in the gender socialisation process. As an institution, sport can be analysed and understood in terms of modern democratic societal participation and development, allowing us to reflect on crucial questions of governance, and pertaining to male/ female participation and reward accrual that goes beyond materialism; as well as to gendered identity expression, be it masculine or feminine as performed by either or both sexes. Lending sports research a historical dimension holds out interesting possibilities with respect to the socio-cultural adaptation of sport to African societies’ gender dynamics; the exploration of cultural patterns over time; and the possibility of insights into the relationship between children’s play and adult sports and the ramifications, therein, for citizen participation in developmental processes.Participants in the 2009 CODESRIA Gender symposium would be invited to consider the various dimensions to the landscape of gender and the multifaceted sports arena including athletics, cricket, children’s games in Africa, and ball sports, with a view to reflecting on the possibilities and barriers that have emerged alongside the old obstacles that have persisted in the search for and process towards a gender-inclusive African development project. The symposium will, among other things, assess the:

i) Theories of play and development as viewed from a gendered perspective, including children’s versus adult forms of play;ii) Gender, Sports and theories of Space in Development terms;iii) Traditional and Modern Sporting Practices – and the interfaces between them – as viewed from a gendered perspective;iv) Gender, Sports and questions of Audience and Participation;v) Modes and patterns of the refraction of gender differentiation into local/ global sports governance and participation;vi) The impact of global processes on local struggles for engendering sports;vii) The Roles of local and/ or global civil society in the mobilisation of gendered development through sports;viii) Sports, Gender and Work;ix) Dialectics of multiple identities and citizenship in the practice of Sports in a global age;x) Sports, Gender and Violence;xi) The gendered aspects of Sports as Performance and Spectacle;xii) Sports and the Articulation of gendered Identities – including national, cultural, sub-cultural, and literary articulations;xiii) New forms of international commodification of players and their gender Implications;xiv) New forms of trans-national commerce in players and potential players and their Development implications through the gender lens;xv) Sports as Global Business and Implications for the Developing world in Gender terms;xvi) Sports, the Media and Gender in Africa’s Development;xvii) Re-thinking Gender and Development in a global Sporting age: Alternatives open to women and men in the quest for gender equality.(… …)For more information on the 2009 CODESRIA Gender Symposium, and to apply, contact: The 2009 CODESRIA Gender Symposium – CODESRIA, BP 3304 – Dakar, Senegal.Tel: +221 – 33 825 98.22/23 Fax:+221- 33 824 12.89 E-mail: gender.symposium@codesria.sn Web Site: http://www.codesria.org”]

– 26 e 27 de Novembro de 2009 – “Navegações” nas ilhas da África e do Mediterrâneo. Centro de Estudos sobre Cabo Verde e Pequenas Ilhas, Universidade do Salento. Lecce (Itália). [“‘Islands are sites of innovative conceptualizations, whether of nature or human enterprise, whether virtual or real. The study of islands on their own terms today enjoys a growing and wide-ranging recognition.’ (J. Baldacchino.) Ponto de partida é o âmbito do estudo sobre as ilhas de acordo com os pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos das Islands Studies, a cujos problemas históricos e metodológicos será dedicada uma sessão.Uma das temáticas estritamente relacionada com as áreas temáticas de estudo das ilhas é a viagem. Qual é a memória da viagem e as formas dessa memória?Possíveis vestígios da memória dos lugares e do espaço das ilhas são mapas, memórias, cartas, descrições, histórias (reais ou imaginadas), contos e outros, nas viagens forçadas (comércio escravo e migração), nas viagens de exploração, nas viagens turísticas (crítica do turismo predatório para um turismo sustentável), nas viagens metafóricas (duma ideia, dum projecto, duma utopia…) As contribuições podem enfrentar as várias temáticas dentro de uma perspectiva ligada às ciências sociais e humanas e a qualquer período histórico. Abertura do Colóquio: Prof. Elikia M’Bokolo; Ibrahima Thioub.(... ...)Línguas oficiais: inglês, italiano, francês e português.Está prevista a publicação das contribuições do colóquio no número especial da revista Palaver: Africa e altre terre.Organizadora: Maria R. TuranoContacto: francesca@isolecentrostudi.org”]

– 26 e 27 de Novembro de 2009 – Colóquio Internacional Lutter dans les Afriques/ Africa’s Struggles. Paris. [“Armed rebellions, hunger riots, urban unrest, rural escapism, social movements, advocacy mobilizations, nationalist struggles and peasant movements, preachers, union activists and ‘African social movements’… Almost 50 years after independence, Africa is more than ever ‘indocile’. Nearly 30 years after the launch of the ‘politics from below’ research trend, the question of the struggles and forms of resistance on the African continent – as well as the theoretical tools mobilized to study them – are of the utmost relevance, both scientifically and politically.

Theorizing struggles in the Africa-s, amounts to resisting the overused image of an Africa deemed to have stepped out of history, a continent of endless consent (that of the dominated) and of immutable authority (that of leaders), an Africa of consensus that one should leave to the gaze of an a-historical anthropology. Opting for such a focus also means questioning and assessing the specificity of the forms and repertoires of dissent enacted on the continent. In turn, this entails exploring in further depth the diversity of the modes of protest. What about, for instance, the ideological logics of protest, not studied so much today whereas they were central in, the years of the independences? Can professionalized forms of protest crystallized around NGOs and violent groups with insurrectionary aims be analyzed together? This involves, finally, accounting for specific cases of protest in light of current transformations pervading African societies, be they related to mutations pertaining to the division between the urbane and the rural, tensions over land, or to religious repertoires of enunciation of the political. This colloquium thus aims at studying both the forms of dissent and the strategies of challengers (e.g. modalities of involvement, extraversion, of accumulation of resources…), but also the management of protest by governments through the State apparatus (repression, cooptation…).Such a focus on political and social struggles does not mean, however, that the latter encompass the whole gamut of situations of dissent and protest against the dominants. One of the headways of the ‘politics from below’ approach is doubtlessly to have driven the focus out of the most obvious sites of observation of the political, and to have fostered research on the practices of enunciation of dissent: indeed, ‘silence does not always imply consent’, as demonstrated by songs, escapes and other threads of indocility. What is the current state of theoretical work on such forms of dissent in Africa? One of the pioneer writings on protest was explicitly posited within nationalist historiography – to the extent that the second piece of work focusing on this question aimed precisely at opposing this positioning. While the ‘politics from below’ approach has largely contributed to the vibrancy of African studies, what are the current usages of central concepts such as ‘popular modes of political action’ or ‘moral economy’? While the critical historiography of resistances is now well engaged, one of the central aims of this colloquium is thus to open a conceptual discussion over theoretical renditions of the forms of dissent in Africa, so as to read them in light of other approaches on protest, by and large developed on Western objects of analysis. Does the opening up of African studies to other theoretical trends imply importing the tools developed by the sociology of social movements – even though the latter has entered a process of routinization, letting its key concepts calcify? This colloquium will pursue the theoretical aim of critically assessing the central paradigms mobilized to account for protest – and ‘non-consent’ – on the African continent, with the hope, among others, that this will contribute to emphasizing the extremely dated and historically situated character of the concept of social movement. How have the analytical tools of the sociology of social movements circulated and been applied to the African continent? With what gains? What is to be made of intersections or, on the contrary, of the differences in the application, or not, of these theoretical frameworks? What is their (more or less) added value, compared to approaches on popular modes of political action – which provide a grid of analysis whose relevance should also be questioned? How should one articulate recent writings in social movement sociology that purport to take into account the transnationalization of mobilizations and the new perspectives opened by a historical sociology of extraversion (J.-F. Bayart)? Should one think at once the circulation and internationalization of modes of protest and that of the theoretical tools purporting to account for them?On the basis of this theoretical interrogation, the colloquium aims at fostering innovative empirical work on the question of struggles in the Africa-s. Paradoxically, during the decades of dictatorships and then ‘liberalization’, research on mobilizations, including on processes of delegitimization of authorities, have been set aside. Writings exploring forms of circulation between diverse strata of society have first obscured forms of dissent – culminating with a focus on ‘civil society’ that has ‘neutralized’ research on this theme. As the notion has definitely been cast away as non-operative, work on diverse forms of struggles can anew venture on slippery fields (religious, militia, peasant groups) and sound out the most relevant theoretical tools to address these phenomena.Focus of the colloquium: This colloquium is open to all social sciences traditions: history, anthropology, sociology, political science, economy… The historical focus is not limited to the period ranging from the 19th to the 21st centuries (…). Discussions will not be based on a prior typology of struggles to be analyzed (social movements, riots, mobilizations), but rather on forms of dissent or protest, be they head-on or indirect, collective or individual, against given forms of authority. (… …)

Practical modalities: (…). Oral communications can be performed in French or in English.For further information on the focus of the colloquium, please contact: jsimeant@univ-paris1.fr mepommerolle@free.fr richard.banegas@noos.fr Scientific committee: Richard Banégas (Université Paris I, CEMAF), Jean-François Bayart (CERI-CNRS), Jean Copans (EHESS), Miles Larmer (University of Sheffield), John Lonsdale (Trinity College, Cambridge), Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle (Université des Antilles Guyane – IESG- CRPLC), Johanna Siméant (Université Paris I, CRPS), Anne-Catherine Wagner (Université Paris I, CSE), Klaas van Walraven (African Studies Centre, Leiden)”]

– 26 a 28 de Novembro de 2009 – Representação de África e dos Africanos na História e Cultura (Séculos XV-XXI). Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM). Ponta Delgada (Açores, Portugal). [“A globalização que marca a contemporaneidade realça a urgência de promover o conhecimento entre os povos.Trocam-se olhares e, com eles, permutam-se ideias e imagens que concebemos do mundo e dos outros, construídas mediante informações – reais ou fantasiadas, abundantes ou escassas –; através de manifestações artísticas, simbólicas e culturais; e, também, pelos relatos, escritos ou orais, vestígios dos homens e do Mundo que pensamos conhecer. Figuras, formas, visões mais ou menos completas, elaboradas em cada época. Símbolos, narrativas, documentos que marcam as relações dos povos com os seus aparatos, exibições, manifestações de poder, conflitos e permutas culturais. Num jogo de reconhecimento, familiaridade, cumplicidades, que comporta, igualmente, tantas outras formas de dissimulação, equívocos, enganos e confrontos.As representações erigidas resultam do conhecimento, interpretação e comparação da história, cultura, vida material e organização das diversas gentes em cada local, a começar, desde logo, pela imagem que fazem de si próprias e que exibem para os outros.O passado lá está. Belo, enigmático, generoso, mas também horrível e cruel. Para os construtores de ilusões, ele pode ser simples, reconfortante, imaculado. Para o investigador, ele é, no entanto, o olhar em esforço de imparcialidade. A utopia de o penetrar, não pretendendo apagá-lo, diminuí-lo, esbatê-lo. Não há nada a mitificar, manipular. A esquecer. A distorcer.O olhar sobre África e dela sobre o mundo, nos dias de hoje, exige um renovado esforço de compreensão. Este colóquio a múltiplas vozes, organizado pelo Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM) da Universidade dos Açores e da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, quer ser um contributo para este movimento. (... ...)Comissão Científica: – Isabel Castro Henriques; – João Paulo Borges Coelho; – João Paulo Oliveira e Costa; – José Damião Rodrigues; – Casimiro Rodrigues. Comissão Organizadora: – Casimiro Rodrigues; – José Damião Rodrigues; – Ricardo Madruga da Costa.Contactos: – casimiro@uac.pt; – damiao@uac.pt Webpage: www.coloquioafrica09.info”]

– 01 a 21 de Dezembro de 2009 – 3.º Festival Mundial das Artes Negras (FESMAN III), subordinado ao tema A Renascença Africana, em Dacar. Durante uma visita oficial a Cabo Verde, o coordenador geral do FESMAN III, o senegalês Alioune Badara Beye, assegurou que a edição deste ano conta com a participação de 82 países, o dobro dos que participaram na edição anterior (FESMAN II, Lagos, Nigéria, 1977, com o tema Civilização Negra e Educação).

– 07 a 09 de Dezembro de 2009 – States at Work in Sub-Saharan Africa. Conferência Internacional de Niamey (Níger). [“Call for Papers: This international conference is interested in the processes involved in the construction of the state and their everyday manifestation in African countries. For a long time, the state in Africa has been the privileged terrain of political science, which produced studies focussing, in the main, on the political institutions or the political elites and their behaviours. With a few exceptions, the ordinary functioning of state, public and parapublic institutions remained under-researched.

The analysis of the day-to-day functioning of the state calls for innovative approaches based on methods drawn from social anthropology, political and administrative science, sociology as well as historiography. A major consideration should be the fact that the construction of the state is not a process that can be completed once and for all, but is, instead, a continuous process of composition and re-composition. We invite contributions which are open to the different sectors in which the activities of the state unfold, i.e. beyond its openly normative dimensions. Similarly, they may take into account the different (central and local) levels of rootedness of the state. Finally, seen from this perspective, the state should also be considered as a complex organization that supplies goods

and services. This is why an analytical process of this nature should not be limited to the strict framework of a single discipline. The aim is to make the state an ordinary object of study by different academic disciplines and with a strong empirical grounding. This conference will provide an opportunity for the presentation and sharing of new research on the topic. It is open to comparative approaches and to different disciplinary perspectives. Different dimensions may be taken into account, such as the dynamic of African bureaucracies, policy development and implementation and the construction of the professional cultures of public officials. The conference is also open to more theoretical contributions. The conference will be organized by LASDEL in Niamey in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology and African Studies of the Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz (Germany) as part of the ‘States at Work’ research programme (financed by the Volkswagen Foundation; cf. http://www.ifeas.uni-mainz.de/projekte/StatesatWork_neu.html). The conference will take place in Niamey from 7 to 9 December 2009. The working languages are French and English.”] Contactos: LASDEL – BP 12901, Niamey, Niger. Tel. + 227 20723780 E-mail: lasdel@lasdel.net URL: http://www.lasdel.net/

– 08 e 09 de Dezembro de 2009 – Colóquio Internacional Magreb & Ibéria: Do confronto à cooperação. Tetuão (Marrocos). [“A Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Tétouan/ Département d’Histoire e o CEAUP (Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto) organizam, em colaboração com a Revue SémiotiqueS, um Colóquio internacional (...).O Magreb e os países ibéricos desenvolveram, desde a época moderna, relações muito complexas. Desde o século XV que a história destas duas regiões não pode ser escrita separadamente. Conquistas, intervenções em guerras civis, hegemonias coloniais e descolonizações foram-se sucedendo, deixando uma forte marca nestas duas sociedades. Este Colóquio pretende reavaliar um pouco desta história comum, sobretudo numa época em que outras potências (França, Alemanha, Inglaterra, Estados Unidos) se tornaram também parceiros mais importantes nesta região do Atlântico e do Mediterrâneo ocidental. Formato do Colóquio: – Conferência de abertura; – Painéis temáticos com workshops para debates.Calendário: Inscrições: até 15 de Outubro. Aceitação e informação aos participantes: 19-23 Outubro. (...) Comunicações: As comunicações podem ser apresentadas em português, francês, inglês, espanhol e árabe. Os textos definitivos não deverão exceder os 28.000 caracteres (incluindo espaços e imagens). Os participantes com comunicação devem enviar um resumo até ao dia 15 de Outubro (max. 1000 caracteres) e apresentar o texto definitivo, no momento do Colóquio. Por favor indicar com o resumo a necessidade de equipamentos multimédia. Haverá uma publicação com as comunicações aprovadas. A Comissão Científica reserva-se o direito de seleccionar as propostas de comunicação. Haverá uma publicação com as comunicações aprovadas. Comissão Organizadora: Nizar Tajditi (U. Tétouan); Elvira Mea (CEAUP); Maciel Morais Santos (CEAUP).Para mais informações contactar o CEAUP: Centro de Estudos Africanos U.P. – Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto – Via Panorâmica s/n – 4150-564 Porto; telf./fax: +351 22 607 71 41; e-mail: ceaup@letras.up.pt; ou Prof. Nizar Tajditi – Révue SémiotiqueS, La Poste, Touabel, B.P. 4370, Tétouan – Maroc. E-mail: ntajditi@yahoo.fr”] 

2010

– 20 a 23 de Janeiro de 2010 – Engaging anthropology in development and social change: practices, discourses and ethics. The APAD (the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development) conference. Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). [“Growing poverty and inequality, emerging ethno-religious tensions and political conflicts, worsening environmental hazards, and increasing social fragmentation remain major challenges of this millennium. This has led to lively debates in politics, development and economics, whereas the relative aloofness of anthropology becomes problematic and almost embarrassing. As the only discipline that is grounded in the inter-subjective relation, an anthropological engagement to social change would perhaps be seen as self-evident. However, engaging anthropology in development and social change raises methodological, epistemological and ethical questions. A core concern of anthropology remains the engagement that fieldwork implies. Empirically grounded fieldwork provides anthropology with its ethnographic insights and analytical tools. Over the years anthropologists have come to turn their attention to development as a critical anthropological subject of study. Yet the relationship between anthropology and development remains ambiguous. Consultancy, short-term research on a predefined problem, has increased with the demand of development institutions for anthropological knowledge. This situation seems to have deepened the

schism between a theoretically oriented anthropology and a more applied anthropology. Major challenges of engaging anthropology are to reconnect theory and practical application, and to create a platform for dialogue between a theoretically oriented, empirically grounded anthropology, and an anthropology directly applied to development and social change. In the recent decade two somewhat contradictory tendencies may be observed in the relationship between anthropology and development. On the one hand, anthropology has become increasingly marginalised in development debates, where macro-economic and political reforms rather than contextualised socially and culturally sensitive development interventions have been promoted. In the era of budget support and sector-wide approaches anthropologists have had hard time to find new ways of engaging in development. On the other hand, anthropological knowledge and perspectives are nowadays demanded by development agencies as, for instance, poverty and rights based approaches require socio-cultural analysis and understanding. The immediate implication of this is that today actors pay at least lip-service to anthropological approaches and perspectives.Taken together these two tendencies reveal that despite important works produced by scholars inside and outside the APAD-network, anthropological knowledge and analysis are often referred to, but much less practically integrated in, development interventions. Yet at a time when the boundaries between development aid and public expenses are fuzzier than ever, anthropological analysis is badly needed to understand and, by extension, influence development and social change. While this seems to be largely accepted, today the main challenge is how and by what means anthropology may engage in development in practical and concrete ways, while respecting scientific rigor and methodological requirements.Central questions that conference participants could address are: What are the prospects for engaging anthropology in major challenges of poverty, inequality, corruption, social fragmentation, violence and ethnic tensions? How and when should anthropologists be actively involved in development efforts, and political jumbles? What are the responsibilities of anthropology in studying social change? How can anthropology engage in public debate and development policy?The Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD) is firmly engaged in strengthening anthropological research on development issues. Over the years researchers have increasingly turned their attention away from a strict focus on development towards the study of the public space, decentralization, governance and civil society. The issue of engagement has re-emerged as a key debate in anthropology as a whole. The theme of the 2010 APAD Conference in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, is a way to return to the issue of engaging anthropology in development and social change.The conference will be organised around the following axes: – Anthropology and the ethics of engagement: Development, politics and cultural exchange; – Setting the agenda in engaged research: Anthropology on public services, media, democratisation, decentralisation, and gender; – Grassroots participation and personal engagement: Anthropologists straddling between the public and the private; – Narratives of development: Integrating anthropology and history; – Anthropological methods in development: Ethnography, participation and the promotion of social change; – Anthropological data and development agencies: Combining research and development work; – Public anthropology: Engaging anthropology in public debate, policy and politics.For more information on the conference and on APAD go to: www.association-apad.org.”]

– 07 a 10 de Abril de 2010 – Continuities, Dislocations and Transformations: Reflections on 50 Years of African Independence. Conferência Bienal da Associação Alemã de Estudos Africanos (Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland – VAD), na Universidade João Gutenberg, em Mainz. [“The year 2010 represents a significant milestone for many countries and a majority of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa, as it marks half a century of political independence. Since 1960 the continent has undergone profound changes, not only politically but also in economic, social and cultural terms, and manifold processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation have radically increased the complexity of the African social terrain. The conference will focus on and assess these processes and the conflicts arising from them. Of particular interest are the historical continuities, dislocations and transformations that have marked the past 50 years, as well as how this historical legacy impacts the present situation on the African continent and what this portends for future developments.To reflect on these issues we invite scholars to propose forums and panels that address the numerous interrelated transformations that have shaped Africa over the last fifty years. The following list of suggested themes is not intended to be an exhaustive catalogue, but to present some focal points of discussion along which the conference theme could be explored:

– Whereas just over ten percent of all Africans lived in cities in 1960, today over half of them are urban dwellers. Urbanisation and population growth, which have given rise to particularly young and dynamic societies, are accompanied by various forms of flows, both in terms of population as well as remittances, within and outside the continent. As a result, Africans now show an unprecedentedly strong, if perhaps rather selective, global presence.– African agriculture has undergone significant shifts. While in some areas it has been intensified and commercialised to varying degrees so that African produce helps supply a growing urban and a global market, much as was the case in the colonial era, in other areas agriculture has stagnated, with rural areas undergoing processes of de-agrarisation and becoming increasingly dependent on financial flows from the cities or from the diaspora.– Although in the 1960s many countries began to undergo industrialisation, the economic crises of the 1970s interrupted this development and ultimately resulted in the increasing marginalisation of many African countries vis-à-vis the global economy. Since 1990, however, international development agencies have in response to these economic crises reintensified their engagement with Africa and attempted to implement structural policies that aim not merely to foster economic development, but to achieve a fundamental remodelling of African societies along the lines of neo-liberal principles.– Africa is currently experiencing a second economic resurgence as the prices of primary resources have skyrocketed, attracting new international actors, most notably China, India and Japan. While this intensifies existing internal conflicts as well as sparking new ones within the continent’s rentier societies, it also presents new opportunities for the development of post-service economies.– Today the state is far more present in society than it was 50 years ago, although this presence remains highly fragile and conflict ridden. One major instrument of this intensified reach of the state has been schooling, with school attendance ratios having spread rapidly from extremely low levels inherited as part of the colonial legacy. This trend of a stronger state presence in society has been compounded by the effects of political decentralisation that became national policy in many African nations in the 1990s. At the same time, the end of the Cold War did much to undermine and destabilise state structures in a number of countries.– Many African states have in the last twenty years undergone a second wave of democratisation (albeit a very precarious one). Today, the political circumstances on the continent are highly variegated, ranging from those of ‘model democratic countries’ like Benin and Ghana, to those of ‘failed’ states like Somalia.– Various forms of regional conflict and cooperation have developed between African states, such as border conflicts and new forms of economic cooperation. South Africa, once the pariah of the international system, has become an important actor in African regional policy.– The process of globalisation notwithstanding, the nation-state continues to delineate an important moral community to which African political elites and societal groups in general address their demands and feel accountable. Furthermore, despite the undeniable strength of regional loyalties and ethnic ties, we can indeed observe thriving projects of nationbuilding, both from above and below, in many African countries. Nation-building and state-making depend on the creation of a physical national infrastructure of bureaucrats and bureaucratic institutions, communication networks, schools and other state institutions. At the same time, the process involves a symbolic dimension, including the contested (re)writing of ‘national’ history which reveals the fault lines of the nation under construction.– Societal relations have become far more differentiated. Family models have diversified so that today we not only continue to find families based on traditional forms of polygynous marriage, in both rural and urban areas, but also encounter ‘modern’ monogamous families with few children, as well as a range of variations that fall somewhere between the two. Similar processes of differentiation are also evident in the area of elite formation.– Following independence, many states relegated religion to the private sphere. But for quite some time now, the African continent has been experiencing a boom in religiosity that is manifest not only in the major religions Christianity and Islam in their increasingly diverse forms, but also in indigenous forms of religious practice. New types of religious groups, beliefs and practices are developing, and an unprecedented internationalisation of religious practice is taking place, while religion is also increasingly present in the public sphere as well as in popular and political cultures.– With the development of modern media, new publics have emerged and multiplied. The mass-media, once controlled by the state, have more recently been faced with increasing competition from newly established private radio and television stations, a flourishing popular press and small-scale cassette or disc-based media which often disseminate unofficial perspectives on everyday

African life. The mobile telephone has also become immensely important, not only for everyday communication, but also for political mobilisation and economic activity.– In the area of cultural production Africa has achieved international prominence in the last 50 years, bringing forth a number of Nobel-laureates in literature and internationally renowned artists. Yet elite artistic activity has been able to exert only limited influence on societal processes in the countries in which it originates. In contrast, the broad field of popular and, for the most part, urban cultural production (music, theatre, video, comics, etc.) has time and again proved to be an important indicator of social developments and provided insightful commentary on societal relations as well as political trends of the past 50 years.– With the emergence of youth and urban idioms, new forms of linguistic diversity have emerged. National languages, which previously only existed ‘on paper’, have developed into nationally used and accepted linguae francae. Almost all African states have established the research and study of ‘their’ languages at university level and regard the exploration of this legacy as an important and sensitive matter without, however, wishing to compromise themselves by making overt decisions for or against certain languages.– The academic capacity of African societies for self-reflection has increased significantly through the development of the African university and research systems. This has had notable effects on the nature of scientific and scholarly engagement with the continent, with African voices gaining greater weight in this process. Changes in the nature of African scientific research and scholarship over the past half century, and in research and intellectual reflection on Africa outside the continent, will also be an important topic of discussion at the conference. The fact that in 2010 the VAD will be approaching the 40th anniversary of its establishment presents an opportunity to reflect on these important changes.The conference will be staged jointly by the German Association for African Studies (VAD) and the Association for African Languages and Linguistics (Fachverband Afrikanistik), which will each host separate panels.”“Please check our conference website for further information. Should you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: VAD2010@uni-mainz.de”] Mais informações:http://wp1140687.wp127.webpack.hosteurope.de/

– 07 a 09 de Junho de 2010 – International Conference The Impact of the Atlantic World on the «Old Worlds» in Europe and Africa from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries. Université de Nantes (France). [“Organizers: Guy Saupin (CRHIA – Université de Nantes), Cécile Vidal (CENA – EHESS Paris), with the assistance of the GIS Histoire maritime France (director: Gérard Le Bouëdec). Organizing Committee: Natacha Coquery (Université de Nantes); António de Almeida Mendes (Université de Nantes); Gérard Le Bouëdec (Université de Bretagne Sud, Lorient); Silvia Marzagalli (Université de Nice); Jacques Péret (Université de Poitiers); François-Joseph Ruggiu (Université de Paris IV – Sorbonne); Guy Saupin (Université de Nantes); Clément Thibaud (Université de Nantes); Laurier Turgeon (Université Laval, Québec); Cécile Vidal (EHESS, Paris).The Atlantic world, formed between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries, maintained tight relations with the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific. Its specificity, however, lay in the conjunction of three interrelated phenomena whose entangled effects were not found elsewhere: European colonization, the slave trade, and racialized slavery. This symbiosis led to the formation of original new societies in the Americas, which differed from the European, African, and Native societies from which they were born. Moreover, the societies of origin in the ‘Old Worlds’, from which large numbers of people left for the Americas, were also forever changed in return. If the new Atlantic history has benefited from an enthusiastic reception, it has also given rise to intense debate. One of the numerous criticisms, as voiced by Alison Games, is that the new historiographical current risks offering only ‘an expanded history of the colonial Americas.’ In order to verify the relevance of the Atlantic paradigm, this conference seeks to reverse viewpoints by focusing on the transformations in Europe and Africa that resulted from their integration in trans-Atlantic dynamics. While the new Atlantic history has mostly been investigated by historians of the ‘New World’, and while specialists of North America clearly dominate the field, this conference seeks to reach out to historians of Africa and Europe in order to enlarge and enrich a still unexplored question. The goal is thus to gather together the whole community of historians potentially concerned with Atlantic history. Since the Atlantic world was born of both European and African migrations, the conference will consider both continents together. Atlantic history begins with the Portuguese explorations along the coasts of West Africa from the outset of the fifteenth century. These travels led to the

development of long-lasting phenomena: the beginning of the Atlantic African slave trade first to Europe then to the Americas, the creation of the big slave plantation model in the African islands like São Tomé before its transfer to the ‘New World’, and the formation of the first Creole societies in the Euro-African Atlantic world. However, Europe and Africa were not linked by the same imperial relations that united Europe and the Americas. The Atlantic slave trade developed precisely because the African kingdoms maintained their sovereignty. It is only from the middle of the nineteenth century that Europeans really began to colonize the interior of Africa, while the Atlantic slave trade was abolished everywhere. The comparison of the impact of the Atlantic world on Europe and on Africa will be one of the main questions of this conference. Which Europe and Africa were affected by these transformations? No frontiers have been set a priori: the relative importance of the Atlantic world in geographical and social space with variable dimensions is another question that will to be explored during the conference. In addition, the inclusion of all social actors means that we will take into account individuals and groups from all social and ethnic backgrounds. One first series of interrogations will deal with the degree to which various Africans and Europeans’ lives were affected by the formation of an Atlantic world. Who was concerned by and who cared about the Atlantic world? Was the Atlantic world part of the social imagination of European and African populations and societies? Who had knowledge of it; what was the quality of that information; how did they acquire it? Who were the individuals and groups that had imperial and Atlantic interests? In order to analyse all the possible transformations of Africa and Europe that resulted from interconnections developed in the Atlantic world, the conference intends to exclude no historical field from the collective reflection, including political, military, economic, social, religious, and cultural arenas. Of course, it will be impossible to exhaust all of these research inquiries: the conference only aims to raise new questions as to how an Atlanticist perspective reveals new perspectives on European and African history. The conference also does not wish a priori to put aside old debates, such as the demographic impact of European and African migrations on areas of departure, the role of the slave trade and colonial trade in the launching of the industrial revolution, the effects of the slave trade on African economies, or the transformations of consumption in Europe and Africa, if they are renewed with original perspectives, through, for example, the comparison between Europe and Africa. In regard to the impact of trans-Atlantic exchanges on European and African economies, several gateways are conceivable, such as the conditions and effects of the marketing of one product (European or American in Africa / American or African in Europe), the complexity of trade circulations and networks through various scales of analysis, the interlope on European coasts, the rivalries between African states and European powers on African coasts, war not as a recurrent accident that disrupted Atlantic exchanges but as a means to restore trade balances and payments of the various colonial powers, etc. As for the socio-cultural effects, papers might consider migrations of «Americans» from all backgrounds (the return of European migrants and the arrival of Natives, African slaves, and free people of color in Europe, as well as projects of colonization by former slaves and descendents of slaves in Africa), the slave trade to Europe, the settling of Europeans and the formation of Euro-African societies in Africa. It would also be very fruitful to consider the ‘New World’ as a space of social experimentation for re-considering work, gender, and race on the other side of the Atlantic. Through a complex system of circulations back and forth, European and African societies were transformed by the development of racial ideologies and the racialization of political and social orders that went with the formation of an Atlantic world. Finally, the conference will explore the nature of political relations linking Europe and Africa to the rest of the Atlantic world. Papers could re-consider, concepts of domination, empire, and the ‘colonial situation’, or trace the evolution over time of these political forms and systems, before, during, and after the era of revolutions. Since the emphasis is on the «Old Worlds», particular attention should be paid to imperial institutions, colonial lobbies, debates related to the colonies, slave trade, and slavery, and to the abolitionist movements in metropoles. The role of imperialism in the development of modern states in Europe and the transformations of African kingdoms with their integration in trans-Atlantic dynamics will also be of interest. Conference Organization: The conference will take place in Nantes on June 7, 8, and 9, 2010. Travels and hotel rooms will be financed, but a pre-registration fee of 100 euros is required. Payment of the fee is due after confirmation of participation, between January 1st and April 30, 2010, at the latest.

If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please send a short CV and a summary of your paper (no more than 2,000 characters) in French, English or Spanish before October 31st, 2009. Papers will be selected before November 30, 2009.The papers may not exceed 60,000 characters or 10,000 words (including spaces, footnotes, and bibliography). They will be pre-circulated and thus must be sent to the organizers before April 30, 2010. During the conference, papers will be quickly summarized in order to give more time to the discussion, which will be initiated by a commentator. French, English, and Spanish will be the languages of the conference. Summaries, CV, and papers should be sent to the organizers by e-mail: Guy Saupin, CRHIA –Université de Nantes: guy.saupin@univ-nantes.fr; Cécile Vidal, CENA-EHESS, Paris: cecile.vidal@ehess.fr”]

2. Notícias

– O filósofo sul-africano Errol Harris faleceu, aos 101 anos de idade, em 21 de Junho de 2009. No campo político, distinguiu-se, na década de 1950, pela oposição ao apartheid, tendo sido membro do South African Race Relations Board, juntamente com Albert Luthuli (o 1.º africano a obter o Prémio Nobel da Paz, em 1960) e Oliver Tambo (futuro presidente do ANC). Uma vez abolido o regime segregacionista na África do Sul, Erro Harris passou a defender a criação de um governo federal mundial.

– Em 29 de Julho de 2009, o Governo Angolano aprovou a nomeação, para um mandato de 4 anos, dos titulares dos órgãos de gestão das novas Universidades Públicas de Angola. Assim, para a Universidade Katyavala Buila (sede em Benguela), foram nomeados: Paulo Horácio de Sequeira e Carvalho, como Reitor; Manuel Francisco Bandeira, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; Afonso Dala Coxi Fula, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; Ermelinda Monteiro Silva Cardoso, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação. Para a Universidade 11 de Novembro (sede em Cabinda): Kianvu Tamo, como Reitor; Luzayadio André, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; Alfredo Gabriel Buza, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; José Manuel Sita Gomes, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação. Para a Universidade Lueji A’Nkonde (sede no Dundo): Samuel Carlos Victorino, como Reitor; Gilberto Caimbo Nhongola, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; Alfredo Armando Manuel, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; Carlos Pedro Cláver Yoba, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação. Para a Universidade José Eduardo dos Santos (sede no Huambo): Cristóvão de Carvalho e Ferreira Simões, como Reitor; Mário José da Costa Rodrigues, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; António Bartolomeu Alicerces Chivinda Eduardo, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; Armindo Gideão Kunjiquisse Jelembi, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação. Para a Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemofayao (sede no Lubango): Viriato Gaspar Gonçalves, como Reitor; Abraão Mulangi, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; José Luís Mateus Alexandre, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; Alberto Raimundo Watchilambi Wapota, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação. Para a Universidade Kimpa Vita (sede no Uíje): Carlos Diakanamwa, como Reitor; Sony Kambol Cipriano, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Académica; Heitor Manuel Timóteo, como Vice-Reitor para a Área Científica; Mbunga Nzinga David, como Pró-Reitor para a Cooperação.O Conselho de Ministros procedeu também à nomeação do novo Conselho de Administração da Imprensa Nacional, E.P., cuja composição passou a ser integrada por David de Assunção Barros, na qualidade de Presidente, e Fernando Norberto de Sousa Mangueira e Inocêncio Francisco Miguel, como administradores. Finalmente, foram aprovados os novos estatutos orgânicos do Arquivo Histórico de Angola e do Instituto de Línguas Nacionais.

– De 10 a 14 de Agosto de 2009, realizou-se, no Rio de Janeiro, o Seminário Internacional O Século XIX e as Novas Fronteiras da Escravidão e da Liberdade. Nas sessões, que decorreram na Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) e na Universidade Severino Sombra (Vassouras), participaram especialistas em temas relativos à escravidão atlântica na época em causa.

3. Publicações

3. 1. Livros

3.1.1. Livros recentes

3.1.1.1. Ficção

– A Música da Fome, de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. Tradução de Isabel St. Aubyn. Lisboa, Dom Quixote, 2009, 188 p. Tradução de: Ritournelle de la faim. ISBN 978-972-20-3825-6. [Sinopse: “Ethel Brun é filha de um casal de exilados, formado por Justine e Alexandre, um homem afável e irrequieto que muito jovem deixou a ilha Maurícia e que, na alegre Paris dos anos 20 e 30, se dedica a delapidar a herança em negócios pouco recomendáveis. Na infância, o único prazer de Ethel é passear pela cidade com o seu tio-avô, o excêntrico Samuel Soliman, (antigo médico militar em África) que sonha ir viver para o pavilhão da Índia Francesa construído para a Exposição Colonial (de 1931).”]

– Cisne de África, de Henrique Levy. Prefácio de Inocência Mata. Lisboa, Livros de Seda, 2009, 144 p. ISBN 978-972-770-671-6. [Sinopse: “Cisne de África faz-nos mergulhar na paixão transgressora de uma enfermeira do exército português por um comandante da FRELIMO (durante a guerra da Independência de Moçambique). Numa viagem fascinantes de sentimentos e contradições somos transportados para uma pequena aldeia da região do Niassa – no norte de Moçambique – e desafiados a partilhar as descobertas feitas por Maria Helena, a jovem enfermeira de Lisboa. Única mulher branca no aquartelamento militar português de Massiconono, Maria Helena desenvolve uma amizade cúmplice com Juliana, a velha africana que lhe cuida da casa, e com Eponine, a auxiliar do posto de enfermagem, que trabalha clandestinamente para a FRELIMO.”]

– Drafted: One Hundred Days, de Mark Powers (banda desenhada). Desenhos de Chris Lie. Chicago, DDP (Devil’s Due Publishing), 2009, 32 p. ISBN 978-1-934692-71-4. [Este episódio isolado duma história em quadrinhos de ficção científica conta com o actual presidente dos Estados Unidos, o afrodescendente Barack Obama, no papel principal.]

– Meio Sol Amarelo, de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Tradução de Tânia Ganho. Alfragide (Portugal), ASA, 2009, 544 p. Tradução de: Half of a Yellow Sun. Prémio Orange 2007. ISBN 978-989-23-0538-7. [Romance acerca da guerra de Biafra (1967-1970). Sinopse: “Com uma elegância apenas ao alcance dos grandes escritores, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie entrelaça as vidas de cinco personagens inesquecíveis: Ugwu, um humilde criado de treze anos a quem o mundo se desvendará pela mão do seu senhor, Odenigbo, que, na intimidade da sua casa, planeia uma revolução. Este jovem professor universitário mantém uma relação apaixonada e sensual com a bela e mágica Olanna, cuja irmã gémea, Kainene, é alvo do amor desesperado de Richard, um jovem inglês a braços com o seu papel de homem branco em África.Todos eles vão ser forçados a tomar decisões definitivas sobre amor e responsabilidade, passado e presente, nação e família, lealdade e traição. Todos eles vão assistir ao desmoronar da realidade tal como a conheciam devido a uma guerra que tudo transformará irremediavelmente.”]

– O Perfume da Savana, de Ludgero Nascimento dos Santos. Coimbra, Pé de Página, 2008, 374 p. ISBN 978-989-614-095-3. [Sinopse: “Situado nos tempos em que África (estava colonizada pelos Portugueses), o presente romance espelha com intensidade os fascínios desta terra quente e inebriante e centra-se numa história de amor entre dois jovens que tudo ultrapassam para viver um amor proibido.Ao mesmo tempo que este livro se constitui como retrato de uma época, evidenciando os seus traços culturais e, em particular, a forma como mulher é socialmente vista, ele conduz o leitor aos meandros da natureza humana e à filigrana dos sentimentos que dão cor à memória e tornam a vida uma intensa e enigmática aventura.”]

3.1.1.2. Não-ficção

– A Casa da Praia do Açúcar: Em busca de Uma Infância Perdida em África, de Helene Cooper. Tradução de Pedro Garcia Rosado. Matosinhos (Portugal), Quidnovi, 2009, 352 p. Tradução de: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood. ISBN 978-989-628-134-2, [Sinopse: “Helene Cooper é uma jovem descendente de duas dinastias, que remontam ao primeiro grupo de escravos libertados que partiram de Nova Iorque em 1820 para fundarem a Libéria. Helene cresceu na Praia do Açúcar, junto ao mar, onde se situava a mansão familiar, de vinte e duas divisões. Foi uma infância cheia de criados, carros vistosos, uma villa em Espanha e uma

fazenda no interior. Quando Helene tinha oito anos, os Cooper adoptaram uma menina – um hábito vulgar entre a elite liberiana. Eunice, uma rapariga da etnia Bassa, tornou-se, de repente, conhecida como «filha da Senhora Cooper».Durante anos, as filhas dos Cooper beneficiaram do aparato da riqueza e da vantagem da sua posição social. Mas a Libéria era como uma panela de água a ferver. E, em 1980, um grupo de soldados fez um golpe de Estado, assassinou o presidente e executou os seus ministros. Os Cooper e os amigos foram aprisionados, abatidos a tiro, torturados e as suas mulheres e filhas violadas. Depois de um brutal ataque, Helene, Marlene e a mãe fugiram da Praia do Açúcar e, depois, para a América. Mas deixaram Eunice para trás…Do outro lado do Mundo, Helene cresceu e tornou-se uma conhecida repórter, trabalhando para o Wall Street Journal e o New York Times e viajando por todo o mundo, mas evitando sempre África. No entanto, em 2003, uma experiência que quase a vitimou, no Iraque, convenceu-a de que a Libéria, tal como Eunice, não podia esperar. Sendo, simultaneamente, uma narrativa muito pessoal e uma análise de um país violento, A Casa da Praia do Açúcar é um relato de tragédia e perdão, contado com uma sinceridade inabalável e o humor de alguém que foi capaz de sobreviver.”]

– “Ask and You Shall Be Given”: Pentecostalism and the Economic Crisis in Cameroon, de Robert Mbe Akoko. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007 (African Studies; 2), 239 p. ISBN 978-90-54-48007-5. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspx Igualmente disponível em formato PDF: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12896

– “Beyond Their Age”: Coping of Children and Young People in Child-headed Households in South Africa, de Diana Adriana van Dijk. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008, 312 p. (African Studies; 14). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-084-6. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13382

– Colapso: Ascensão e Queda das Sociedades Humanas, de Jared Diamond. Tradução de Ana Sampaio. Lisboa, Gradiva, 2008, 696 p. Tradução de: Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. ISBN 978-989-616-284-9. [Nesta obra, o polémico geógrafo americano Jared Diamond analisa o que pode levar “as sociedades a autodestruírem-se, a tomarem decisões desastrosas" (p. 489). Dá como exemplos, entre outros países do mundo, Ruanda (segundo o autor, um caso extremo de superpopulação conduziu ao genocídio de 1994) e a República Dominicana (onde as políticas ambientais do presidente Joaquín Balaguer teriam evitado que o Estado seguisse o destino catastrófico do vizinho Haiti, de população na sua maioria afrodescendente).]

– Coming back from the Bush: Gender, Youth and Reintegration in Northern Sierra Leone , de Janneke van Gog. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008, 140 p. (African Studies; 9). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-078-5. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13113

– Crianças em armas, de Peter Singer. Tradução de Hugo Gomes. Colares (Portugal), Pedra da Lua, 2008, 288 p. Tradução de: Children at War. Prémio Livro do Ano 2006 do Memorial Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ISBN 978-989-8142-19-1. [Sinopse: “P. W. Singer, especialista, internacionalmente reconhecido, em assuntos de guerra do século XXI, escreve sobre como uma nova estratégia de guerra utilizada quer pelos exércitos quer pelos senhores da guerra teve como alvo as crianças, procurando transformá-las em soldados e em terroristas.(... ...)Entrevistando crianças-soldados ao logo de todo o livro, Singer analisa a forma como estas crianças são recrutadas, abduzidas, treinadas, e finalmente enviadas para lutar em lugares violentos devastados pela guerra, desde a Colômbia e o Sudão a Kashmir e Serra Leoa. (...) O autor, Associado do departamento de Segurança Nacional do Instituto Brookings e director do Projecto Brookings sobre a Política Norte-Americana relativamente ao Mundo Islâmico, analisa a forma como este fenómeno surgiu, e de que forma as perturbações sociais e as falhas de desenvolvimento

nos modernos países do Terceiro Mundo conduziram a um conflito global maior e a uma instabilidade que gerou um novo grande grupo de recrutas. Singer escreve sobre a forma como a tecnologia tornou as armas de hoje mais pequenas e mais leves, consequentemente, mais fáceis de transportar e manejar por crianças; como vivem mil milhões de pessoas nos países em vias de desenvolvimento onde a guerra civil faz parte do quotidiano; e como algumas crianças – sem comida, roupas ou família – se tornaram soldados voluntários como única forma de sobrevivência.Finalmente, Singer torna claro como o governo norte-americano e a comunidade internacional têm de enfrentar esta nova realidade da guerra contemporânea, como aqueles que beneficiam com o recrutamento de crianças para soldados têm de ser responsabilizados, como as forças armadas do Ocidente têm de estar preparadas para lutar contra crianças, e de que forma os programas de reabilitação podem reverter este terrível fenómeno e transformar as crianças-soldados novamente em crianças.”]

– Cultura em movimento: Matrizes Africanas e Ativismo Negro no Brasil, de Elisa Larkin Nascimento (org.). Nova edição. São Paulo, Selo Negro, 2008, 312 p. (Sankofa: Matrizes Africanas da Cultura Brasileira; 2). ISBN 978-85-87478-33-7. [Sinopse: “Tratando do legado cultural e da tradição de resistência dos descendentes de africanos no Brasil, este volume reúne ensaios e depoimentos sobre várias dimensões e aspectos. Nei Lopes e Beatriz Nascimento trazem uma perspectiva sobre o legado dos ancestrais bantos e malês; Elisa Larkin Nascimento, Joel Rufino e Abdias Nascimento, assinando pelo Conselho Deliberativo do Memorial Zumbi, esboçam uma pequena história das lutas afro-brasileiras do século XX. A questão da educação no Brasil como tema fundamental da vida e da luta dos afro-descendentes é tema de relatórios de fóruns de educadores que a abordam no seu aspecto teórico e prático. Três educadoras – Vera Regina Triumpho, Silvany Euclêncio e Piedade Marques – trazem depoimentos ricos sobre a sua experiência com a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional, modificada pela Lei nº 10.639 de 2003.”] Um excerto desta obra (p. 11-31) pode ser consultado em formato PDF: http://www.gruposummus.com.br/indice/40033.pdf

– Dilemmas of Development: Conflicts of Interest and Their Resolutions in Modernizing Africa , de John Abbink e André van Dokkum (eds.). Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008, 271 p. (African Studies; 12). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-081-5. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13060

– E se Obama Fosse Africano? E outras Interinvenções, de Mia Couto. Lisboa, Caminho, 2009, 160 p. (Outras Margens). ISBN 978-972-21-2023-4. [O título do livro provém de um artigo que Mia Couto publicou no jornal moçambicano Savana, depois de Barack Obama ter sido eleito presidente dos Estados Unidos. Sinopse: “Na sequência do anterior Pensatempos, Mia Couto ressurge com um conjunto de textos de intervenção que resulta da sua participação em encontros públicos nos últimos anos. São textos de reflexão crítica de um autor de ficção que, ao mesmo tempo que reinventa o seu universo, não abdica da sua missão de pensar o mundo. As intervenções abordam temas que vão da política à literatura, da cultura à antropologia, mas todos eles confirmam como o escritor moçambicano faz da sensibilidade poética um modo de entender a complexidade do nosso tempo.”]

– Ficheiros Secretos da Descolonização de Angola, de Leonor Figueiredo. Lisboa, Alêtheia, 2009, 280 p. ISBN 978-989-622-184-3. [Sinopse: “Quando procurava elementos sobre o seu pai, desaparecido em Angola, em 1975, a jornalista Leonor Figueiredo descobriu que vários portugueses foram deixados propositadamente nos cárceres do MPLA, pelas Forças Armadas Portuguesas, no momento da retirada da antiga colónia. Alguns dos detidos tinham feito assaltos e roubado armamento para um outro movimento de libertação, o de Holden Roberto. Um deles conseguiu mesmo sequestrar um avião.Portugal não quis que estes portugueses regressassem à metrópole nem os quis submeter aos tribunais nacionais. Atirou-os para a justiça alheia, mesmo sabendo que estes jovens de 30 anos tinham sido raptados meses antes da independência de Angola por elementos do MPLA.À história trágica de seu pai, a autora somou outros casos desconhecidos sobre a polémica descolonização de Angola, como a prisão de um primo juiz do então Presidente Costa Gomes; a verdadeira história da médica Fernanda Sá Pereira, desaparecida na sequência de uma falsa notícia

sobre antropofagia; a busca infrutífera do irmão do comandante Bravo, que o (...) governo (de Portugal) não queria que fosse português.”]

– Filho da Guerra, de Emmanuel Jal. Tradução de Cláudia Ramos e Helena Ramos. Porto, Albatroz, 2009, 304 p. Tradução de: War Child. ISBN 978-972-0-04174-6. [“A história de sobrevivência e triunfo de uma criança-soldado do Sudão”. O correspondente documentário, realizado por Karim Chrobog (War Child, 2008), foi premiado em diversos festivais internacionais. Sinopse: “Em criança, mal podendo com o peso de uma arma, Jal, um dos Meninos Perdidos do Sudão, testemunhou e praticou actos de extrema brutalidade, no contexto da guerra civil que grassava no seu país.As suas memórias de terror desenham-se vividamente nesta poderosa autobiografia, que revela dolorosamente a fúria que a guerra lhe ensinou, mas também a forma impressionante como conseguiu superá-la.Inspirado por Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King e Nelson Mandela, socorreu-se da música como instrumento para o seu próprio processo de cura e incentivo à paz no seu país, tornando-se um dos mais promissores cantores rap africanos, reconhecido internacionalmente.Chocante, inspirador e carregado de esperança, Filho da Guerra é a autobiografia de um jovem singular, determinado a contar a sua própria história e a revelar ao mundo a tragédia do seu país.”] Um excerto desta obra (p. 7-19) pode ser consultado em: http://recursos.portoeditora.pt/recurso?&id=1118996

– Food Security and Coping Mechanisms in Marginal Areas: The Case of West Pokot, Kenya (1920-1995), de Anne Kisaka Nangulu. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2009, 275 p. (African Studies; 15). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-085-3. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13788

– Janus 2009: Aliança de Civilizações, Um Caminho Possível?, de José Manuel Fernandes e Luís Moita (direcção). Lisboa, Público e UAL (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa), 2009, 210 p. ISBN 978-989-619-976-4. [Anuário. Artigos de especial interesse para os estudos africanos: “Huntington e a negação da civilização africana”, de Tcherno Djaló (p. 152-153); e “Cape Town: Palimpsest city”, de Edgar Pieterse (p. 197-198).]

– Making Decentralization Work for Women in Uganda, de Alfred Lakwo. Fotos de Albert Ogwiri. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2009, 162 p. (African Studies; 16). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-5448-086-0. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13793

– Michelle Obama, de Neal Bailey (banda desenhada). Desenhos de Joshua LaBello. Bellingham (Washington), Bluewater, 2009, 32 p. (Female Force). ISBN 978-1-4276-3885-4. [Biografia em quadrinhos da 1.ª afro-americana a ocupar o cargo de primeira-dama dos Estados Unidos].

– O Lado Obscuro da Economia, de Loretta Napoleoni. Tradução de Catarina Gândara. Lisboa, Presença, 2009, 287 p. Tradução de: Rogue Economics. ISBN 978-972-23-4060-1. [Neste ensaio sobre as relações entre crime e globalização, aborda-se, entre outros temas relevantes para os estudos africanos, a questão da ajuda aos países de África (p. 185-190), para se concluir que “a ajuda externa é um vírus económico tão infeccioso e letal como a SIDA”, ou AIDS (p. 189).]

– “Our Way”: Responding to the Dutch Aid in the District Rural Development Programme of Bukoba, Tanzania, de Adalbertus Kamanzi. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007, 260 p. (African Studies; 4). ISBN 978-90-5448-073-0. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12886

– Pastoralistes et la ville au Bénin: Livelihoods en questionnement, de Théophile Sourou Djedjebi. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2009, 301 p. (African Studies; 17). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-084-6. Encomendas (versão impressa): http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13849

– Plantations, Power and People: Two Case Studies of Restructuring South Africa’s Forestry Sector, de Alice Achieng Ojwang. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008 (African Studies; 10), 220 p. ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-079-2. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13014

– Poverty and Inequality in Urban Sudan: Policies, Institutions and Governance, de Muna Ahmed Abdalla. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008, 291 p. (African Studies; 13). ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-082-2. Igualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13106

– “Prendre le bic”: “Le Combat Spirituel” congolais et les transformations sociales , de Julie Ndaya Tshiteku. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008 (African Studies; 7). ISBN 978-90-5448-076-1. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12911

– Rio de Sangue: Uma Aventura Apaixonante ao Coração de África, de Tim Butcher. Tradução de Espadeiro Martins. Venda Nova (Portugal), Bertrand, 2009, 384 p. Tradução de: Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart. ISBN 978-972-25-1836-9. [Sinopse: “Inspirado pelas explorações do Dr. Livingstone e viagem de Stanley, bem como por histórias que ouvia à mãe, que viajara pelo Congo nos anos 50 (do século XX), Tim Butcher decide subir o rio Congo sozinho. O resultado é um relato apaixonante de um país inacessível ao exterior (a República Democrática do Congo) e que ilustra bem a história negra e trágica do continente africano. Contra o conselho de todos, Tim decidiu fazer a viagem sozinho, levando consigo apenas uma mota, uma piroga e 4 000 dólares escondidos nas botas, avançando assim para uma das mais ousadas e aventurosas viagens realizadas por um jornalista em tempos modernos. O autor sabe entrelaçar de forma magnética a sua experiência com a viagem de Stanley e a história do Congo.”]

– Teaching Peace, Transforming Conflict?: Exploring Participants’ Perceptions of the Impact of Informal Peace Education Training in Uganda, de Anika May. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2008, 189 p. (African Studies; 11). 2.º lugar do Prémio Tese sobre África 2007. ISSN 1876-018X, ISBN 978-90-5448-080-8. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/13069

– Tied to Migrants: Transnational Influences on the Economy of Accra, Ghana, de Lothar Smith. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007, 270 p. (African Studies; 5). ISBN 978-90-5448-074-7. Encomendas (versão impressa): http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12898

– Transition towards Jatropha Biofuels in Tanzania?: An Analysis with Strategic Niche Management, de Janske van Eijck. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007, 182 p. (African Studies; 3). 2.º lugar do Prémio sobre África 2006. ISBN 978-90-5448-072-3. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12902

– Transnationalism, Local Development and Social Security: The Functioning of Support Networks in Rural Ghana, de Maria Johanna Elizabeth Kabki. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007, 312 p. (African Studies; 6). ISBN 978-90-5448-075-4. Encomendas (versão impressa):http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF:https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12882

– World and Experiences of AIDS Orphans in North Central Namibia, de M. van der Brug. Leiden, African Studies Centre, 2007, 98 p. (African Studies; 1). ISBN 978-90-5448-071-6. Encomendas (versão impressa): http://www.ascleiden.nl/Publications/AfricanStudiesCollection.aspxIgualmente disponível em formato PDF: https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/12901

3.1.2. Livros mais antigos

3.1.2.1. Ficção

– As Neves do Kilimanjaro, de Ernest Hemingway. Tradução de José Correia Ribeiro. Lisboa, Livros do Brasil, 2005, 220 p. Tradução de: The Snows of Kilimanjaro. ISBN 972-38-2770-0 (i.e. 978-972-38-2770-5). [Sinopse: “Kilimanjaro é uma montanha coberta de neve, com seis mil metros de altura, que, segundo se diz, é a montanha mais alta de África. O seu cume ocidental tem o nome de Ngaje Nagai, em masai a Casa de Deus. Estão reunidas neste volume algumas das histórias mais famosas de Hemingway, como a que dá o título ao livro e «A Curta e Feliz Existência de Francis Macomber», ambas consideradas obras-primas do autor. Em «As Neves do Kilimanjaro», o escritor Harry Street, ferido no decorrer de um safari, agoniza, com uma gangrena fulminante, enquanto, junto à sua actual mulher que o acompanha e procura animar, vai recordando os seus antigos amores e os livros que escreveu. Ao longo de páginas arrebatadoras, já adaptadas ao cinema, o leitor assiste então a uma pungente história de paixão, vivida em plena luta pela sobrevivência.”]

– Hemingway: Morte de Um Leopardo, de Jean Dufaux (banda desenhada). Desenhos de Marc Malès; tradução de Artur Lopes Cardoso. Venda Nova (Portugal), Bertrand, 1995, 58 p. Tradução de: Hemingway: Mort d’un léopard. ISBN 972-25-0885-7 (i.e. 978-972-25-0885-8). [História de quadrinhos que mistura factos reais com ficção, a partir da narrativa d’As Neves do Kilimanjaro.]

– No Coração de África, de Chantal Henry-Biabaud. Ilustrações de Jean-Marie Poissenot; tradução de Maria Teresa Corte-Real. Porto, Civilização, 1989, 40 p. (Descobrir: Enciclopédia de Bolso para Crianças). Tradução de: Au coeur de l’Afrique, le long du fleuve. ISBN 972-26-0021-4 (i.e. 978-972-26-0021-7). [Descrição de uma subida do Congo, esta narrativa francesa, supervisionada pela Association Générale des Instituteurs et Institutrices des Écoles et Classes Maternelles Publiques e que contou com a colaboração da então Embaixada do Zaire em Paris, é o inverso do relato de Tim Butcher, 2 decénios volvidos, em Rio de Sangue.]

3.1.2.2. Não-ficção

– Pensatempos, de Mia Couto. Lisboa, Caminho, 2005, 160 p. (Nosso Mundo). ISBN 972-21-1687-8 (i.e. 978-972-21-1687-9). [Sinopse: “Com estes Pensatempos se publica, pela primeira vez, em Portugal, um livro de Mia Couto que não se localiza no território da ficção literária. Esta colecção de textos reúne, sim, artigos de opinião e intervenções que o escritor Mia Couto realizou nos últimos anos, dentro e fora de Moçambique. São textos dispersos e diversos, abrangendo uma área vasta de preocupações. Em todos eles, porém, está presente não apenas o escritor mas o cidadão envolvido com os problemas do seu tempo. Nestes Pensatempos transparece a preocupação de provocar debate, sugerindo alternativas inovadoras, questionando modelos de pensamento e interrogando os lugares-comuns que aprisionam o nosso olhar perante os desafios da actualidade. O prazer já encontrado na escrita de quem se diz estar reinventando a língua portuguesa ressurge agora no gosto de pensar o nosso mundo e o nosso tempo.”]

– Saudade de Luanda, de Curado da Gama. 1.ª edição. Lisboa, Quimera, 2005, 120 p. ISBN 972-589-156-2 (i.e. 978-972-589-156-8). [Sinopse: “Luanda, cidade mítica, dona de toda uma toponímia que apenas os que a viveram e amaram reconheciam e reconhecem. O quotidiano da capital de

Angola é revisitado neste livro publicado pela Quimera, através de imagens que a mostram ao longo dos três primeiros quartéis do século XX. E é sobretudo de um reencontro que se trata: uma viagem no tempo até às décadas de 1910 a 1970. Luanda no esplendor da sua beleza frágil mas, mesmo assim, intemporal. Um livro imperdível!”]

3. 2. Revistas

– President Evil (banda desenhada). Santo António (Texas), Antarctic, n.º 1 (Julho de 2009). [Esta história em quadrinhos, que se assume como uma sátira, apresenta Barack Obama como protagonista.]

– Savage Dragon (banda desenhada). Berkeley (Califórnia), Image, n.º 145 (Fevereiro de 2009). [Nesta história em quadrinhos, o super-herói Savage Dragon, que apoiou a candidatura de Barack Obama à Presidência dos EUA (no n.º 137 – Fevereiro de 2008), encontra-se com o novo chefe de Estado.]

– Youngblood (banda desenhada). Berkeley (Califórnia), Image, vol. 4, n.º 8 (Março de 2009). [Esta edição contém uma história em quadrinhos, da autoria de Rob Liefeld, intitulada Change We Can Believe In; naturalmente, o protagonista é Barack Obama... Existe também uma variante de capa, para a revista, com a figura do actual presidente dos EUA.]

3. 3. Artigos de revistas

– “Ousmane Sembene, poeta do cinema africano”, por Leo Salvador (desenhos de Arturo Arnau), in Audácia, Lisboa, Missionários Combonianos do Sagrado Coração de Jesus, n.º 464 (Junho 2009), ISSN 0871-576X, p. 52-53. [Sinopse: “Ousmane foi, sucessivamente, picheleiro, trolha, pescador e soldado no exército colonial francês. Mais tarde, trabalhou no porto de Marselha como estivador – o que organiza as cargas. De 1956 a 2004, escreveu novelas e dirigiu filmes, para criar novas mentalidades.”] Igualmente disponível em: http://www.audacia.org/cgi-bin/quickregister/scripts/redirect.cgi?redirect=EkuFlVFEplBdnaCeon

3.4. Jornais

– “E se Obama fosse africano?”, por Mia Couto, in Savana, Maputo (14 de Novembro de 2008). Igualmente disponível em: http://www.savana.co.mz/editorial/pais/44-pais/180-e-se-obama-fosse-africano

3.5. Livros electrónicos

– À travers le continent misterieux: Découverte des sources méridionales du Nil, circumnavigation du lac Victoria et du lac Tanganika, descente du fleuve Livingstone du Congo jusqu’a l’Atlantique, de Henrique Morton Stanley. Tradução de H. Loureau. Paris, Biblioteca Nacional de França, 2007, 2 vol. (Gallica: Voyages en Afrique). Tradução de: Through the Dark Continent: Or, the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa, and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. [Trata-se da 1.ª tradução francesa do livro em que Henry Morton Stanley descreve a expedição de 1874-1877. Essa aventura, recorde-se, inspirou a viagem de Tim Butcher, narrada em Rio de Sangue.] Digitalização da versão impressa, publicada em Paris pela Hachette, em 1879 (2 vol.). Disponível (com instruções em português) em: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1049638.r=stanley.langPT# (vol. 1);http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k104964n.r=stanley.langPT# (vol. 2). Igualmente disponível em formatos TIFF e PDF.

3.6. Periódicos electrónicos

– “Combattre la corruption, une nécessité en RDC; mais comment faire?”, por Cédric Kalonji (desenhos de P. Coksy), in Congo Blog Ba Leki, Lille (França), Escola Superior de Jornalismo de Lille (27 de Julho de 2009). Disponível em: http://www.congoblog.net/combattre-la-corruption-une-necessite-en-rdc-mais-comment-faire/

3.7. “Working papers”

– Managing Arms in Peace Processes: ECOWAS and the West African Civil Conflicts, de Isiaka Alani Badmus. 1.ª edição. Porto, Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto, 2009, 89 p. (e-Working Papers WP/CEAUP n.º 2009/01). Formato PDF. Disponível em: http://www.africanos.eu. ISBN 978-989-8156-11-2.