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Surname: BENOLIEL COUTINHO Name: Ângela Sofia Birth date: 04/ 04/ 1973 Place of birth: Lisbon - Nationality: Capeverdean /Portuguese Adress: Rua Ramalho Ortigão, nº 18 - 3º Esqº 1070 - 230 Lisboa - Portugal e-mail: [email protected] mobile phone: (00 351) 96 13 57 844

Universitary degrees 2005, April PhD in Contemporary African History by the Paris I - Panthéon - Sorbonne University, France, on “The PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and )'s leaders, from the foundation to the division : study of individual itineraries, families' strategies and ideologies” Scholarship / PhD Grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal 2000 Degree in Applied Foreign Languages Portuguese/Italian, by the Paris X - Nanterre University, France

1996 Master Degree in Economical and Social History by the Paris X - Nanterre and Paris I - Panthéon - Sorbonne Universities, France

1995 Degree in Sociology by the Paris X - Nanterre University, France

Professional activities 2016 (March – December) – Responsible and researcher of the Project “The participation of capeverdean women in the national liberation movement (1956 – 1974), financed by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation – Dakar office

2016, September – 2015, September - Consultant at the Project of digitization of the archives of CIDAC (Center for Intervention for Development Amílcar Cabral), concerning the African liberation movements, financed by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

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2016, December - 2014, January - Main resercher and responsible for the “Project of Safeguard of the Jewish Presence and Heritage in Cape Verde” Cape Verde Jewish Heritage Project, Inc., Washington, financed by the World Monuments Fund in New York 2014, December - 2013, October - Main researcher and responsible of the Project of Safeguard of the Morna António Canuto Foundation, Cape Verde, financed by the BREDA/UNESCO Bureau in Dakar 2013, September to December, Country Expert for Guinea-Bissau, Varieties of Democracy / Political Science Department, University of Gotenburg, Sweden 2013, August - 2007, September - Post-doctoral researcher with a grant from the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology/ Ministry of Science - Portugal / CesNova / IPRI, Nova University from Lisbon “The ministerial and administrative elite recruitment in the Republic of Cape Verde (1975 – 2008)” and “The parliamentary and local power recruitment in the Republic of Cape Verde (1975 - 2008)” 2007, January - 2006, November - Teacher of the Seminary on History and Culture, University Jean Piaget of Cape Verde 2005, July - 2004, October - Teacher of "African History", "Contemporary History", "Historical Research", in the Superior Studies Institute Isidoro da Graça, , Cape Verde 2003, August - 2001, September - Reader at the Portuguese Department, Paris X - Nanterre University, France 2001 Co-author and translator of the documentary ka mori : a musical heritage at the Cape Verde islands, '52 min., DV-Cam, production by Bel-Air Media, RFO, Muzzik, France, with the support of the Unesco program The Slave Route

2001, 1997- 1998 Assistant in the library of the Brasilian Embassy in Paris

1999, November - December Archivist at the Cooperation Ministery in Paris, France

Publications Books (author) BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, The P.A.I.G.C. leaders (1956 – 1980),

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Coimbra, Coimbra University Press, 2015 (in the press)

Books (editor) BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia (org.), CABRAL, Luís, Memories and Speeches, , Amílcar Cabral Foundation, 2014

Book chapters BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, “The decolonization process in Cape Verde” in ROSAS, Fernando, MACHAQUEIRO, Mário, OLIVEIRA, Pedro Aires, The Farewell to the Empire – 40 years of Portuguese Decolonization, Lisbon, Nova Vega, 2015

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Introduction», in CABRAL, Luís, Memories and Speeches, Praia, Amílcar Cabral Foundation, 2014

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Interview of Luís Cabral with Ângela Sofia Benoliel Coutinho», in CABRAL, Luís, Memories and Speeches, Praia, Amílcar Cabral Foundation, 2014

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «The Ministerial Recruitment in Cape Verde (1975 – 2006)», in MONTALVÃO SARMENTO, Cristina, COSTA, Suzano (orgs.), Between Africa and Europe - Nation, State and Democracy in Cape Verde, Coimbra, Almedina, 2013

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «The representation of the ‘black’ in the texts of capeverdean authors in the journal African Youth (1930 – 1932)», in TAVARES PIMENTA, Fernando (org.), Republic and Colonialism in Portuguese Africa, Porto, Afrontamento, 2012

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Women in the ‘shadow’: capeverdean and the national liberation struggle» in Women in Cape Verde: Experiences and Perspectives, Praia, Uni-CV, 2012

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BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Imagining the ideal fighter of the P.A.I.G.C.: the building of the national heroes in the post-independance press in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde», in REIS TORGAL, Luís, PIMENTA, Fernando, SOARES SOUSA, Julião (orgs.), International Meeting Imagined Communities – Nation and Nationalism in Africa, Coimbra, Coimbra University Press, 2008

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Souvenirs du cachot: le parcours de Fernando Fortes dans la mémoire de sa veuve», in MUZART-FONSECA DOS SANTOS, Idelette, COSTA ESTEVES, José Manuel, ROLAND, Denis (orgs.), Les îles du Cap Vert: langues, mémoires, histoire, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2007

Articles in international indexed scientifical journals BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, “Women as Ministers and the Issue of Gender Equality in the Republic of Cape Verde”, Afrika Zamani, Dakar, CODESRIA, Nºs 18 - 19, 2010 - 2011, pp. 149 - 158 indexed review in IBSS

Publication in official reports of scientifical meetings BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «Political builders of Lusophony: the first government of the Republic of Cape Verde» in Ist & IInd International Meeting on Subsaharian Migrants in Europe, Lisbon, 2007

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «From the national liberation struggle to the government of the Republic of Cape Verde: the trajectories of the members of the government from 1975 to 1991» https://repositorio.iscte.pt

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, “The image of Brazil in Cape Verde: the case of the Arts and Letters review » www.ichs.ufop.br/conifes/ac2.htm

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, «The P.A.I.G.C.’s leaders trajectories (1923 – 1960)» http://coloquiocvgb.wordpress.com/actas/

Other publications BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, Entries “Cape Verde”, “PAIGC”, “Amílcar

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Cabral”, “”, “Luís Cabral”, “João Bernardo Nino Vieira”, “Pedro Pires” in REZOLA, Maria Inácia, SANTOS, Paula Borges, REIS, António, Dictionary of the History of Portugal, Porto, Figueirinhas, 2015 (on the press)

DO ROSÁRIO, João, Cape Verde, Perspective and Reality, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2013 (translation from french to portuguese)

BENOLIEL COUTINHO, Ângela Sofia, “The political trajectory of President Pedro Pires”, Africa Confidential, London, August 2011

ASCHER, Françoise, The ‘Rabelados’ of Cape Verde, Paris, l’Harmattan, 2011 (translation from french to portuguese)

Participation in International Conferences

2008, 18th – 19th February, International Meeting Imagined Communities Nation and Nationalism in Africa, Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal, «Imagining the ideal fighter of the P.A.I.G.C.: the building of the national heroes in the post-independence press in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde»

2009, 13th – 15th July, International Conference Entreprise coloniale et lutte de libération en Afrique, Centre National de Recherches Préhistoriques, Anthropologiques et Historiques (CNRPAH), Algiers, Algeria, «Les fondateurs du P.A.I.G.C. (Parti Africain pour l’Indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap Vert) : étude de parcours individuels, les années de formation au Cap Vert»

2009, 18th – 20th October, International Conference Internacional SOS Histoire africaine Ecrire l’histoire des femmes en Afrique: passé, présent et futur, CODESRIA, Nairobi, «Femmes capverdiennes et politique: de la lutte de libération nationale à la participation dans le gouvernement (1963 - 2008)»

2010, 4th – 6th March, Vth Congress of the Portuguese Association of Political Science,

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Aveiro, Portugal, «The ministerial elite recruitment in Cape Verde - 1975 – 2006»

2010, 9th – 11th September, 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies (CIEA7), CEA - ISCTE - IUL / CEAUP, Lisbon, Portugal «From the national liberation to the government of the Republic of Cape Verde: the trajectories of the government members from 1975 to 1991»

2010, 7th – 8th October, Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Freedom of the People In the Conception of the Republic, Uni-CV / CEIS20, Mindelo, Cape Verde, «The representation of the ‘black’ in the texts of capeverdean authors in the journal African Youth (1930 – 1932)»

2010, 9th – 10th November, Women in Cape Verde: Experiences and Perspectives, CIGEF – Uni-CV / CES – Coimbra University / CODESRIA, Praia, Cape Verde, «Women in the ‘shadow’: capeverdean and the national liberation struggle»

2011, 22nd – 23rd February, Atlantic Creole Archipelagos : Cape Verde and S. Tomé and Prince in a Compared Perspective, IAO / CEA – ISCTE – UL / CESNOVA – UNL, Mindelo, Cape Verde «From fighters to ministers: the recruitment of the capeverdean political leaders from the national liberation struggle to the present times»

2011, 20th – 21st June, International Conference The End of the Portuguese Empire in a Comparative Perspective, ICS / CEHC – ISCTE - UL / IHC – UNL / Institute of Commonwealth Studies, Lisbon, «The Political Socialization of Capeverdean Nationalists in Portuguese Universities»

2012, 2nd – 3rd March, VIth Congress of the Portuguese Association of Political Science, Lisbon, Portugal «The Ministerial Recruitment in Cape Verde - 1975 - 2006»

2012, 21st – 23rd June, International Conference Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau:

6 trajectories of knowledge and science, ISCSP- UTL, Lisbon, Portugal, « The recruitment of the P.A.I.G.C.’s leaders (1956 – 1980)»

2012, 21st–23rd June, Ist International Conference Internacional on Portuguese Contemporary History - Portugal in the Last Two Hundred Years, ISCTE – IUL, Lisbon, Portugal, «The role of the teacher as an actor of the public space and the anti- colonial socialization – the case of Baltazar Lopes da Silva in Cape Verde»

2012, 14th-15th September, International Symposium The Social Sciences in Cape Verde: who are we and where are we going to?”, Uni-CV/PIC- Belgium, Praia, Cape Verde, « The Ministerial Recruitment in Cape Verde – 1975 – 2006 »

2012, 13th-15th December, Ist Meeting on Portuguese Oral History in Network, ICS – UL / IHC – FCSH – UNL, Lisbon, Portugal, «Life testemonies of the capeverdean militants of the P.A.I.G.C. (1956 – 1975)»

2013, 18th – 20th January, Amílcar Cabral Forum, Amílcar Cabral Foundation, Praia, Cape Verde, «The management of the 1940’s famines and the political formation of Amílcar Cabral»

2013, 27th -29th June, European Conference on African Studies, CEA – IUL / AEGIS, Lisbon, Portugal, «The ‘contratado’ for S. Tomé and Prince : representations in speeches of capeverdean intelectuals and politicians (1910 – 1974)»

2014, 11th – 13th September, IXth Iberian Congress of African Studies (CIEA9), CES / Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal, « The parliamentary representativity in Cape Verde, from the one-party rule to the multi-party system (1975 – 2008) »

2015, 22nd, 23rd and 25th of May, International Conference House of the Students from the Empire: histories,memories,legacies, CES – UC / ICS – UL, Lisbon University,

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UCCLA, Lisbon, « The Capeverdean and Guinean associates of the House of the Students from the Empire: socialization and political trajectories »

2015, 11th July, International Conference on the Independence of Cape Verde, Capeverdean Association / Cape Verde Embassy in Lisbon, Lisbon, « The trajectory of the P.A.I.G.C.’s leaders (1956 – 1980) »

Organization of International Conferences 2008, 2nd June, member of the Organization Committee of the IIIrd International Meeting on the Subsaharian Migrants in Europe, Circulation of Producers of Cultural Goods and of Highly Qualified Professionals in the Global Society of Knowledge, SociNova/ CesNova –Nova University of Lisbon, Telheiras, Portugal

2010, 9th – 11th September, Co-organization of the Panel "Cape Verde and S. Tomé and Príncipe: the Struggle for Independence, Decolonization and the Building of the Independent States" with Gerhard Seibert (CEA/ ISCTE), at the 7th Iberian Congress of African Studies (CIEA7)

2011, 22nd – 23rd February, co-organizer of the International Seminar Atlantic Creole Archipelagos : Cape Verde and S. Tomé and Prince in a Compared Perspective, with Gerhard Seibert CEA – ISCTE – University of Lisbon) and Corsino Tolentino (IAO- Cape Verde), Mindelo, Cape Verde

2015, 22nd – 25th of May, member of the Scientifical and Organizational Commissions of the International Conference House of the Students from the Empire: histories,memories,legacies, with Cláudia Castelo, Aida Freudenthal, Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Maria Paula Meneses, Rute Magalhães, Pereira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta, Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Miguel Cardina, CES – Coimbra University / ICS – Lisbon University, UCCLA, Lisbon, Portugal

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Participation in jurys and peer reviews

- Member of the Scientif Commission of the ENID – Ist National Meeting on Research and Development, 12th-14th November 2009, Praia, Cape Verde, Ministery of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cape Verde / UNESCO/ Ministery of Education of Cape Verde

- Member of the jury of the master degree dissertation on Arts, Patrimony and Theory of Restauration, of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, «Patrimony and Memory - a Case Study in the island of Santiago, Cape Verde», Rita de Cássia Silva dos Santos Ramos, 26th March 2010

-Member of the jury of the PhD thesis in Social and Political Sciences of the University of Cape Verde / University of Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) « Genesis and formation of the capeverdean political-administrative elites, 1975 – 2008 », Crisanto Avelino Sanches de Barros, 12th September 2012

- «Cape Verdean notions of remittances», Copy-book on African Studies, CEA – ISCTE, Portugal, May 2010 (peer review)

- «Crioulization in Cape Verde and S. Tomé and Prince : the historical and identitary diferences», Afro-Asia review, Center of Afro-Oriental Studies, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, October 2012 (peer review)

- « Historical Analysis of the Guinean Immigration for Cape Verde», International Symposium The Social Sciences in Cape Verde : who are we and where are we going to?”, University of Cape Verde/ Louvain-la-Neuve University (Belgium)- March 2013 (peer review)

- «The formation of political leaders as a catalyser element of the constitution of the

9 post-independence capeverdean elite », International Symposium The Social Sciences in Cape Verde: who are we and where are we going to?”, University of Cape Verde/ Louvain-la-Neuve University (Belgium)- March 2013 (peer review)

- « PIDE’s Racial Strategy in Angola (1959 – 1961) » in O’REILLY, Conor, Durham University, UK, «Colonial Policing and the Transnational Legacy : The Global Dynamics of Policing Across the Lusophone Community», Ashgate, May 2013 (peer review)

Languages Portuguese – mother tongue, excellent reading and comprehension; excellent oral and written abilities French - excellent reading and comprehension; excellent oral and written abilities English - very good reading and comprehension; good oral and written abilities Italian - very good reading and comprehension; good oral and written abilities Spanish – very good reading and comprehension; good oral abilities Capeverdean Creole - excellent comprehension; very good oral abilities

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