This book comes in sequence of several scientific outputs produced within the research project on Pluralism – Democratization and Electoral Integrity in Angola and Mozambique – P-DEIAM (www.deiam.com), articulating three academic institutions – ISCTE-IUL, Angolan Catholic University and University Eduardo Mondlane – developed between 2018 and 2023, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education (FCT-MCTES) and the Aga Khan Development Network, within the program on Knowledge for Development Initiative.

This specific project is also part of the fourth stage of a larger project initiated in 2004 by Nuno de Fragoso Vidal and Justino Pinto de Andrade, entitled “Processes of Democratization and Development in Angola and Southern Africa”, with several outputs, including seven books, various articles in reviews, more than a dozen international conferences (e.g. Luanda, Maputo, London, Lisbon, Wageningen, Brussels – UN & EU), sponsored panels at the Luso African Studies Organization in myriad conferences of the African Studies Association), provincial conferences (Huambo, Benguela, Lubango - Angola), besides numerous workshops, public discussions, film and photography exhibitions on elections, etc. (www.pedeiam.com).

Featuring chapters from: Nuno de Fragoso Vidal; Malyn Newitt; Henning Melber; Luca Bussoti; David Sogge & Bob van der Winden; Bruno Ferreira Costa.

Speakers

Nuno de Fragoso Vidal, editor of the book.

Malyn Newitt is former deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Exeter, and the first holder of the Charles Boxer Chair, King's College London. He has authored more than twenty books on Portugal and Portuguese colonial history, including A Short History of Mozambique and Emigration and the Sea, both published by Hurst.

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