Recent Publications on Lusophone Africa

H-Luso-Africa Recent publications on Lusophone Africa

Discussion published by Kathleen Sheldon on Thursday, September 10, 2020 Here is another list of important and interesting publications. Scroll to the end for a music break!

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*********************************** From a forthcoming special issue of Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (2020) on Women, Trade and Landed Property in Africa:

Vanessa S. Oliveira, “Baskets, stalls and shops: experiences and strategies of women in retail sales in nineteenth-century Luanda,” DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1749679

Mariana P. Candido, “ Understanding African women’s access to landed property in nineteenth-century Benguela,” DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.174909

José C. Curto, “Women along the Catumbela River, 1797: land ownership, agricultural production, labour and trade,” DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2020.1749098

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Jonna Katto, “Liberating Taste: Memories of War, Food and Cooking in Northern Mozambique,” Journal of Southern African Studies (2020): DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1793518

Paolo Israel, “The Mueda Massacre Retold: The ‘Matter of Return’ in Portuguese Colonial Intelligence,” Journal of Southern African Studies (2020) pre-publication: DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1805854

Maria Bastião, “O regime dos prazos na Ilha de Moçambique, 1763-1800,”Ler História 76 (2020): 31-53, https://journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/6786

Francis Dube, Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890-1940: African Experiences in a Contested Space (Springer, 2020) https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-47535-2#toc

Nicola Soekoe, “Living excluded from the world: essentialism in development

Citation: Kathleen Sheldon. Recent publications on Lusophone Africa. H-Luso-Africa. 09-10-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/discussions/6421083/recent-publications-lusophone-africa Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Luso-Africa discourse and its percolation into Santomean self-perceptions,”Anthropology Southern Africa 43, 2 (2020): 156-168, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2020.1767507

Ana Balona de Oliveira, “The Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Migration in Contemporary Art from Angola and Its Diaspora,” African Arts 53, 3 (Autumn 2020): 8-15 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/762925

Ana Nolasco, “Gazes from the South: The Tchiloli and the Work of René Tavares,” [São Tomé e Príncipe] African Arts 53, 3 (2020): 44-57, muse.jhu.edu/article/762929.

Carlos Cardoso, “La Guinée-Bissau et le Cap-Vert: Histoire commune et trajectoires démocratiques opposées,” in L’état de la démocratie et des droits de l’homme en Afrique de l’ouest: Permanences et ruptures, ed., Babaly Sall, 89-120 (Goree Institute, 2019) http://goreeinstitut.org/index.php/mediatheque/actualites/item/1032-nouvel-ouvrage- l-etat-de-la-democratie-et-des-droits-de-l-homme-en-afrique-de-l-ouest

Kristina Pikovskaia, “‘We Could Not Be There’: Storytelling and the Narratives of Soviet Military Advisers, Specialists and Interpreters in Angola during the Civil War (1975–1992),” Journal of Southern African Studies(2020), DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2020.1797355

Jason Sumich, “‘Just Another African Country’: Socialism, Capitalism and Temporality in Mozambique,”Third World Quarterly prepublication view, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2020.1788933

Justin Pearce, “History, legitimacy, and Renamo’s return to arms in central Mozambique,” Africa 90, 4 (2020): 774-795 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972020000315

Diogo V. Oliveira, “Mozambique Island, Cabaceira Pequena and the Wider Swahili World: An Archaeological Perspective,”Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (2020) DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2020.1792627

Ana Nolasco, “Postproduction, Archive, and Memory in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso,” [Cabo Verde]Nka 44 (2019): 94–107, https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7547478

Jeffery H. Marshall, Mathilde Nicolai, and Rui da Silva, “Out-of-school children in Guinea-Bissau: A mixed-methods analysis,”International Journal of Educational Development 77 (September 2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0738059320303825

Marcel Fafchamps, Ana Vaz, and Pedro C. Vicente, “Voting and Peer Effects: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique,” Economic Development and Cultural Change 68, 2 (January 2020) https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/700634

Michael Madison Walker, “Protecting Smallholder Land Rights in Mozambique, 1997–2017: Unfinished Business?,” African Studies Review (2020) pre-publication view: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2020.55

Rufino Sitoe, Terrorismo em África: A Presença da Ameaça em Moçambique (Editora Brevemente, 2020)

Benjamin Breen, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019), includes chapters on “Fetishizing Drugs: Feitiçaria, Healing, and Intoxication in West Central Africa,” and “Occult Qualities: British Natural Philosophers and Portuguese Drugs.” https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/toc/16009_toc.html

This information was shared earlier, but without a link: Francisco Miguel, “Maríyarapáxjis: Silêncio, exogenia e tolerância nos processos de institucionalização das homossexualidades masculinas no sul de Moçambique,” Ph.D., Universidade de Brasília, 2019, https://repositorio.unb.br/bitstream/10482/38350/1/2019_FranciscoPaoloVieiraMigu el.pdf

This film was announced earlier, but now appears to be available at https://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p37798; Nalini Elvino de Sousa,Enviado Especial [film about Aquino de Bragança] (2018).

H-Net book review, Jacob Ivey for H-War, Linda M. Heywood.Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen, 2017. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=55162

Blogs and News:

Cabo Ligado, a weekly update on events in Cabo Delgado from ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, is available at https://acleddata.com/cabo-ligado-mozambique-conflict-observatory/, and you can also subscribe if you want regular notices about events.

Alex Vines, “As conflict in Cabo Delgado increases, will Frelimo learn from its mistakes?,” Mail & Guardian (24 June 2020) https://mg.co.za/africa/2020-06-24-as-conflict-in-cabo-delgado-increases-will-frelimo- learn-from-its-mistakes/

Mariana Dias Paes and others, “Global Legal History on the Ground: Court Cases in African Archives: Research Project,” about Angola, Cabo Verde, and Guinea-Bissau (Max Planck Institute) https://www.rg.mpg.de/research-project/global-legal-history-on-the-ground

“Angola: Death announced of singer Waldemar Bastos,” Plataforma (10 Aug 2020) https://www.plataformamedia.com/en/2020/08/10/angola-death-announced-of-singer- waldemar-bastos/

António Jorge, “Uma perspectiva sobre a herança colonial de Angola,” O Kwanza (26 ago 2020) https://www.jornalokwanza.com/destaques/uma-perspectiva-sobre-a-heranca-colonia l-de-angola/

James Carter, “Matteo Ricci and the Slave Trade that Connected Portugal with Macau,” SupChina (5 Aug 2020) https://supchina.com/2020/08/05/matteo-ricci-and-the-slave-trade-that-connected-por tugal-with-macao/

Chatham House, “Mozambique’s Peace and National Reconciliation Agreement: One Year On,” video of event held Aug. 6, 2020, https://www.chathamhouse.org/file/mozambique-s-peace-and-national-reconciliation- agreement-one-year

Jasmine Opperman, “Mozambique needs an intervention – but SADC must not rush in blindly,”Mail & Guardian ()6 Jul 2020) https://mg.co.za/africa/2020-07-26-mozambique-needs-an-intervention-but-sadc-must -not-rush-in-blindly/ Jasmine Opperman also posts information about Mozambique

Citation: Kathleen Sheldon. Recent publications on Lusophone Africa. H-Luso-Africa. 09-10-2020. https://networks.h-net.org/node/7926/discussions/6421083/recent-publications-lusophone-africa Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 4 H-Luso-Africa frequently at her Twitter account https://twitter.com/Jasminechic00

Christopher Michael Blakley, “Trailing a Southeast African Plant in Los Angeles,” The Center and Clark Newsletter (Summer 2020), scroll to page 3-4 for a brief discussion of plants and healers in 17th c. Mozambique, http://www.1718.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Newsletter-69.pdf

Jessica Krug, “The Truth, and the Anti-Black Violence of My Lies,”Medium (3 Sep 2020) https://medium.com/@jessakrug/the-truth-and-the-anti-black-violence-of-my-lies-9a9 621401f85 And many comments on Twitter and Facebook, as well as international news coverage. One sample article from the Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/gwu-plans-to-replace-jessica-krug-t he-professor-who-admitted-to-falsely-claiming-black-identity/2020/09/04/699fc2be- eedb-11ea-ab4e-581edb849379_story.html

Take a break with an Angolan take on Master KG’s Jerusalema with Fenomenos do Semba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=613A9d6Doac&fbclid=IwAR0A2VV5ryERpeUwH N9AK4ErS4MScf11AAZrs7ugS-Zr2cbh5CeAdPpA2VA And this version advertising safe tourism in Cabo Verde https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1X5wTS5NCDk