Africa-Press – Cape verde. Anthropologist, professor, essayist, and columnist Manuel Brito-Semedo will participate on October 24th and 25th in the international symposium “The Struggle Continues! – 50th Anniversary of African Liberation from Portuguese Rule,” to be held at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA).
According to a press release, the meeting will bring together researchers and academics from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, as well as representatives of their diasporas, to discuss the legacies of the liberation struggles, postcolonial challenges, and the cultural and political dynamics of the last five decades.
Cape Verde will be represented by four academics: Ângela Sofia Benoliel Coutinho (Portuguese Institute of International Relations – Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Abel Djassi Amado (Simmons University, USA), João Resende-Santos (Bentley University, USA), and Manuel Brito-Semedo (University of Cape Verde).
Three belong to the academic diaspora, while Brito-Semedo, a retired professor from Uni-CV and resident in Cape Verde, is the only one to speak based on his experience in the country.
The symposium begins on the 24th with the plenary session “Africa and Education for Global Democracy,” followed by discussions on Memory Politics in the Post-Colony and Writers, Writing, and the Deconstruction of the Colonial Order.
The proceedings continue on the 25th with the panels “The Cold War – Lusophone African Particularities, Liberation, Art and the Post-Colony” and “Trajectories of Democratization in the PALOP,” which will feature Brito-Semedo’s intervention.
In Panel V – Democratization Trajectories in the PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African Countries), moderated by Abel Djassi Amado (Simmons University), Brito-Semedo will present the conference “Cape Verde: Between Islands and Destinies – Insularity, Creoleness, and Atlantic Communities,” highlighting insularity as openness to the world, Creoleness as a shared identity, and the diaspora as the “eleventh island.”
The panel will also feature presentations by Marinela Cerqueira (Social History of Angola), Olukunle P. Owolabi (Villanova University), and Aleida Mendes Borges (King’s College London).
Participating institutions include Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Bowdoin, SUNY Buffalo, and other leading universities, highlighting the international and academic dimension of the debate.
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