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Apresentação do livro "The Liberation of Portuguese Africa" | IHC O livro editado por Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta e Aurora Almada e Santos vai ser apresentado na FLUL por Marissa Moorman.

📘 O livro "The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-1975", editado por Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta e Aurora Almada e Santos vai ser apresentado na FLUL, no âmbito do Congresso Internacional Independências Africanas, por Marissa Moorman.
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Northeast Africa's dictators: the class of 69' From Tripoli to Mogadishu, a generation of officers vowed to finish what independence started. Fifty years later, their coupvolutions still haunt the region.

I wrote a piece on the 1969 coups in Sudan, Libya, and Somalia that reshaped the region and whose impacts are still visible t/day.

I profile Barre, Nimeiri, and Gaddafi—the 'Class of 69'—exploring their ideological shifts and Nasser’s influence on them

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Guinée-Bissau. « Embaló a une conception autoritaire du pouvoir » - Entretien Les Bissau-Guinéens sont appelés aux urnes le dimanche 23 novembre. Bubacar Turé, le président de la Ligue guinéenne des droits humains (LGDH), s’inquiète d’une situation dégradée dans le pays, (…)

#Entretien #guineebissau🇬🇼 Les Bissau-Guinéens votent ce 23 novembre. Bubacar Turé (Ligue guinéenne des #droitshumains), s’inquiète d’une situation dégradée que ce soit dans le domaine des droits humains ou sur le plan politique.
📌 #Democracy @fidh-official.bsky.social @ldh.fr

Meio Século de Angola: A Memória e a História da Independência em Debate As comemorações dos cinquenta anos da independência de Angola reabriram o debate público em torno da resistência do governo em reconhecer, entre os homenageados

Artigo meu e do Helder Adegar Fonseca publicado no Diário de Notícias sobre os debates e combates em torno da História da Independência de Angola.

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A Brutal Post-Election Crackdown in Tanzania Leaves Lasting Scars After hundreds of people were reported killed by security forces, experts say the country will never be the same.

In Tanzania, hundreds of people were killed last month as security forces crushed post-election protests.

The scale of the unrest, and the government’s crackdown, mark a critical turning point for the country.

Por uma Ciência Autónoma, Ambiciosa e Responsável É inegável que a ciência portuguesa enfrenta sérias dificuldades que há muito temos vindo a apontar, designadamente nos manifestos pela ciência de 2011 e 2018 e no manifesto conjunto de cientistas e e...

Assinado. Ideia essencial: "A responsabilidade política pelo desenvolvimento da ciência deve permanecer no domínio da ciência. Distribuí-la por várias tutelas não resolve qualquer problema".
Pode subscrever até segunda-feira dia 17.

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Il y a 50 ans, le 11 novembre 1975, déclarations d’indépendance en Angola - à Luanda par le MPLA avec Agostinho Neto et à Huambo par le FNLA et l’UNITA avec Jonas Savimbi - mettant fin au long et complexe processus de décolonisation des anciennes colonies portugaises en Afrique

CFP: Colonial Violence, Resistance and Legacy in Africa: Perspectives and Critiques

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158639

Lomé, 21.04.2026-23.04.2026, Association des Historiens et des Archéologues du Togo, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.12.2025

Quais foram as redes internacionais de solidariedade que apoiaram a luta armada da UNITA? Esta é a questão que procurei responder no artigo publicado no número especial da Afro-Ásia dedicado à História de Angola e que reúne outras contribuições de grande interesse.
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Great to see on paper mine and Helder's chapter on the Angolan Decolonization process, specially as we draw close to the country's 50 years aniversary.

Claudia Gastrow, Podcast Episode · New Books in African Studies · 10/31/2025 · 58m

I had the wonderful opportunity to chat to Miranda Melcher about my book on urban aesthetics, Angola, oil and Indigenous urbanisms in Africa. Hosted of course by the fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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📖 New article online!

'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja

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Humanitaire hulpverleners zoals Joseph verdienen bescherming, geen gevangenis 500 dagen is het dat de Belgisch-Portugese hulpverlener Joseph Figueira Martin willekeurig wordt vastgehouden in de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek. ‘Mobilisatie doet ertoe’, argumenteren Olivier Vandec...

Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum...
And we must talk about researcher safety!
@kristoftiteca.bsky.social @abi-freiburg.bsky.social

🚨 The @unesco.org just released volumes 9, 10, 11 of its monumental “General History of Africa”, a massive project launched 60 years ago with a clear goal: to tell the history of Africa from an African perspective. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience” Between 1989 and 1991, every government from Chad to Somalia collapsed. The region still grapples with the legacy of this tumultous period.

My latest blogpost looks at the almost simultaneous collapse of Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia's governments at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s

89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience”

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Unlocking Opportunities: Polish economic interactions in Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975–1981)1 This article examines the economic interactions between the Polish People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975-1981) and explores in detail Warsaw...

The article on Polish–Angolan relations is out in the Journal of Cold War History.

It explores an asymmetrical relationship shaped by anti-imperialist solidarity and economic pragmatism, but also marked by tensions, disappointments, and corruption.
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Lisboetas, não percam a esperança. Com Moedas e a IL ao comando, agora é que isto vai ser um conto de fadas 🏰💫

Lo schianto di un imperialismo straccione di Sandro Moiso Fernando Rosas, Mário Artur Machaqueiro, Pedro Aires Oliveira (a cura di), L’Addio [...]

📰 Sandro Moiso publicou uma recensão a da obra "L’Addio all’Impero 1975: l’indipendenza delle colonie portoghesi", editada este ano em Itália:
"extremamente útil para compreender o percurso do declínio de um imperialismo, primeiro português e depois ocidental"
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Já fiquei aziado

A story of an asymmetrical relationship, marked by anti-imperialist solidarity, mutual and pragmatic economic interests, but also by tensions, disillusionments, and even by bribery and corruption.

5 octobre 1910 : proclamation de la République au Portugal 🇵🇹 115e anniversaire aujourd’hui sans discours officiels, en raison de la proximité des élections municipales (12 octobre)

Proofreading time! This one was such a fun article to write on Polish–Angolan relations during the Cold War :)

Sign the Petition: Free Joseph Figueira Martin! Humanitarian arbitrarily detained and tortured in the Central African Republic Sign the petition to protect those who risk their lives to save others.

Please sign this petition for the release of Joseph Figueira Martin, a humanitarian who's been arbitrarily detained (for close to 1,5 years..) and tortured in the Central African Republic. petitions.protecthumanitarians.org/en/petitions...

Preocupante. Espero que se consiga fazer algo para se corrigir isto oficial e institucionalmente, sobretudo através de quem faz investigação científica no campo da História e domínios relacionados.

Debating “Discoveries”: Colonialism & Public History in Portugal With debates over the public history of empire and colonialism intensifying across Europe, Afonso Dias Ramos explores the controversy in Portugal over the use of the term “Discoveries” to encompass the country’s complex colonial past.

OTD in 1974, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau's independence from Portugal, was officially recognised, having been declared in 1973.

In this article from our archive, Afonso Dias Ramos explores contemporary debates around discussing Portugal's colonial history.

"Não estive numa festa, estive numa reunião política". Ministra do Ambiente defende Festa do Pontal A ministra do Ambiente e Energia esteve esta noite no programa 360, da RTP. Maria da Graça Carvalho afastou as críticas relativas à Festa do Pontal, que decorreu no pico dos incêndios, afirmando que o...

Eu não me esqueço que quando o PCP realizou a festa do Avante em 2020, andou tudo aos gritos porque aquilo não era um evento político, era uma festa. Mas agora parece que agora já da jeito que a festa do pontal seja um evento político. 2 pesos e 50 medidas.

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And today the African Association has been closed and the building, seized. A sad day.

Ciência para se traduzir em "produtos", "faturas". É assim que Manuel Castro Almeida, Ministro Adjunto e da Coesão Territorial, vê que deve ser a Ciência. Produzir, produzir, produzir. Faturar, faturar, faturar. Foi isto que me ficou. Uma comunicação muito esclarecedora, diga-se. Na 'RTP3'.

. @asdprojeto.bsky.social

“Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct,” Vallata said. “It is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.”