Keynote Address:
Portugal’s Colonial
Project, High Modernism and
Post-Colonial Amnesia: The Case of Mozambique
Allen Issacman
Professor, History, University of Minnesota; Director of the MacArthur
Program on Peace and International Cooperation; and, fmr President (2002)
African Studies Assoc.
Session I: After the War: Political Economy of the Public and Private
Sectors in Angola and Mozambique
Are Public Private Partnerships Good for Angola and Mozambique?
Anne Pitcher, Prof., Political Science, Colgate Univ.
The Development of the Angolan Political Administrative System,1975
to the Present
Nuno Vidal, CEA, ISTE, University of Lisbon
Angola’s Private Sector:
Rent, Distribution and Oligarchy
Renato Aquilar, Assoc. Prof., Economics,
Goteborg University, Sweden
Session II: The View from the Islands: Resources and Development in
Portuguese Island Nations
Cape Verde: Managing Foreign Resources and Proximity
Victor Reis, Economics, Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
Stature as a Measure of Socioeconomic Inequalities and Poor Living Conditions
among Portuguese, Cape-Verdean-Portuguese and Cape Verdean Children 1993-2002
Maria Ines Varela-Silva, Behavioral Sciences,
University of Michigan-Dearborn
We are Rich! or Are We? Oil and Development in Sao Tome and Principe
Steve Kyle, Professor, Applied Econ. and Mgt, Cornell
The Vision of the African in the Early Chronicles of the Portuguese
Expansion
Dalila de Sousa, Ass. Prof, History, Spelman College
Session III: Politics, History and Sociology in Lusophone Africa––from
Guinea to Mozambique
Markets and Gardens: Women and Work in Urban Mozambique
Kathleen Sheldon, Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, Univ.
of Los Angeles
Paulo Freire and the Politics of Literacy in Brazil, Chile and Portuguese
Africa
Andrew Kirkendall, Prof, History, Texas A & M University
Local Authorities or Local Power? The Ambiguities of Traditional Authorities
from the Colonial to the post-Colonial Period in Guinea Bissau
Clara Carvalho Picarra, Professor, Anthropology, ISCTE, University of
Lisbon, Portugal
The Rise and Development of Radical Islam in Mozambique
Eric Morier-Genoud, PhD candidate, Univ. of Binghamton, NY
Sponsors: Institute for African Development; Poverty, Inequality, and
Development Initiative; and Department of History, Cornell.
Contact Information
Jackie Sayegh
Institute for African Development
(607) 255-6849
CIAD@cornell.edu
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