Colloquium

The central role of Education in African Independences

May 20, 2026, 14h00-17h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

This event aims to present and promote debate around themes and methodological approaches to research within the framework of the EDU-AM project, “Revolutionary Pedagogies? A History of Educational Projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960–1980)”, currently underway at the CES. Adopting a comparative historical approach between Angola and Mozambique, the project seeks to understand the multiple political inspirations, meanings, as well as the conflicts and impacts of revolutionary projects in the construction of new African male and female citizens within the context of the two Southern African countries.

This colloquium brings to Coimbra a group of African academics from the continent or the diaspora, including Teresa Cruz e Silva (Eduardo Mondlane University), Benedito Machava (Yale University) and Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali (Howard University), to present their latest research.

Organisation:
Research project EDU-AM - Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s) [https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01785.PTDC]
Doctoral Programme in Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship