Colloquium

The central role of Education in African Independences

May 20, 2026, 14h00-17h00

Room 1, CES | Alta

Programme

2.00 pm Opening Session
Marisa Ramos Gonçalves (CES-UC)

2.10 pm – 2.50 pm
Teresa Cruz e Silva (Eduardo Mondlane University)
Mozambique and the Social Sciences in Contexts of Change
Chaired by Jessemusse Cacinda (CES-UC)

2.50 pm – 3.30 pm
Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali (Howard University)
The Teaching of National History in Post-Colonial Angola: Between Pedagogical Challenges and Historiographical Conflicts in the Construction of a Consensual National Narrative
Chaired by Joana Simões Piedade (CES-UC)

3.30 pm – 4.10 pm
Benedito Machava (Yale University)
Detail in Maria Paula Meneses’ Historical and Ethnographic Method
Chaired by Celso Braga Rosa (CES-UC)

4.10 pm – 4.30 pm Final Remarks
Margarida Calafate Ribeiro (CES-UC)

4.30 pm – 5.00 pm Coffee-Break