Narratives about the history of Central Africa before the colonial period are dominated by what is conventionally called the “Bantu expansion”. However, historians, archaeologists and linguists (the three academic disciplines ...

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During the armed struggle (1961-1974), the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) addressed women liberation and sought to include women in a host of political, logistical, andmilitary positions. On the other ...

This essay examines the organization and implementation of the National Literacy Campaign promoted in Angola immediately following independence, using it as a vantage point to investigate the dilemmas and conflicts that ...

From different perspectives, we analyze the strategies with which the Candomble communities have been organizing to dialogue with the public authorities. Applying the concept of agency, we reflect on the experience of ...