LINKING LIFE STORIES WITH HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS: THE PLACE OF ‘MEMORY’ IN POST-1974 PORTUGUESE SOCIETY
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L’Angola est un pays sortant d’un contexte historique douloureux marqué par la guerre, au sortir de laquelle son système d’enseignement supérieur était quasiment inexistant. Depuis 2002, date de signature des Accords de Paix, ce système est en mutation et en structuration. En 2009, l’apparition d’une politique de l’enseignement supérieur est devenu...
Published in International Breastfeeding Journal
BackgroundAngola has one of the highest annual under-five mortality rates in in the world and malnutrition poses a severe problem in the country. This study is the first to focus on the traditional knowledge of plants, foods, and treatments used by the local population in the province of Uíge to affect the quality and quantity of human breast milk,...
Levantamento sobre alguns periódicos anunciados no Recife, entre 1827 e 1849, e periódicos encontrados em Angola produzidos no século XIX. O levantamento visa contribuir para o estudo das consequências literárias e culturais das intensas relações comerciais entre Pernambuco e Angola no século XIX.
The phylogenetic position of Rangaeris (Schltr.) Summerh. has been one of the most problematic issues of angraecoid orchid taxonomy. A recently published phylogenetic tree with nearly comprehensive taxon sampling of African angraecoid orchids suggested that this genus was polyphyletic, as its species appear nested within different subclades of the ...
Published in Genes
Bacterial meningitis (BM) is a severe disease caused by various bacterial pathogens. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) protect humans from invading pathogens. In this study, we determined whether single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of TLR4 and TLR9 are associated with susceptibility to and outcome of BM in Angolan children. Samples were taken from 241 ...
The history of Moçamedes remains largely unwritten from an Africanist perspective. This contribution draws upon a number of censuses produced by the Portuguese colonial administration to re-construct the demographic past of this southern Angolan port town from its foundation in 1839-1840 to 1869. A close analysis of these colonial sources clearly d...
Este artigo tem o objetivo de, por intermédio de relatos de viajantes, cronistas e funcionários administrativos no século XIX, refletir sobre a organização geopolítica de Angola. Após breve parêntese metodológico, discutimos o caráter da presença portuguesa na região que considerava ser o “Reino de Angola” e as suas relações com as chefias política...
Resumo: Este artigo reexamina a principal narrativa afrocêntrica sobre as origens da capoeira, o engolo ou “dança da zebra”, à luz de fontes primárias históricas e material etnográfico novo, coletado durante pesquisa de campo no Sudoeste de Angola. Examinando as técnicas corporais do engolo, seu contexto sócio-histórico e seus significados culturai...
Resumo Este artigo busca estudar as instituições angolanas de Poder Local, comparando-as com o que se tem a respeito do Poder Local no ordenamento jurídico brasileiro. O Poder Local está explícito na Constituição angolana de 2010, e implícito no texto constitucional brasileiro, quando eleva o Município a ente federativo e estabelece formas particip...