Research

The Transformation of Slavery in Benguela, Angola:
Dependency and Social Categories in the NIneteenth Century

The establishment of the Atlantic slave trade, responsible for the forced migration of at least 11 million Africans to the American continent, brought about a radical modification in the organization of African slavery and, at the same time, enabled the creation of modern transatlantic slavery. This new scenario created various situations of dependency not only in the African colonies, but also in the European countries involved in human trafficking.

Thus my research currently has the following objectives: To unravel the concealments or omissions involving this topic, not with the purpose of exalting resentment, guilt or the unjustifiable of the current state of our development as Africans, but to elicit facts, roles, contexts and circumstances of the true tragedy that was the transatlantic trade of human beings from the African coast, through the judicial processes existing in the county court of Benguela, dating from the nineteenth and twentieth century.

Education

• 2019–2022                 European Legal History, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2009                             M.A. in Management and Valorization of Historical and Cultural Heritage, University of Évora, Portugal
• 2008                             M.A. in History of Sciences and History of Techniques, University of Paris 1 – Pantheon  – Sorbonne
• 2000–2004                 Graduation: degree in Education Sciences, in the specialty of History, University Agostinho Neto, Angola
• 1998–2000                 High School in Pre-University Institute of Benguela, in the specialty of Human Sciences. Angola         

Academic Positions

• 2019–present             Research Associate in Research Group Law and the Creation of Dependency in the Ibero-Atlantic, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
                                         and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
• 2016–2019                  Head of Department of Social Sciences, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Benguela, University Katyavala Bwila, Angola
• 2011                              Professor, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Benguela, University Katyavala Bwila, Angola
• 2005–2011                  Professor for History at the II Level, Augusto Chipenda School in Benguela, Angola
• 2010                             Collaborating Professor, Jean Piaget Polytechnic Institute
   

Participation in Centers, Scientific Associations, Collaborative Projects

• 2012–2019                  Member responsible for the School of Archaeological Field of Practice in Benguela in collaboration with the National Museum of Archeology, Angola
• 2017                              Member of the Research Project for Historical Education, Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Benguela, University Katyavala Bwila, Angola
• 2016                              Member of the Project for Organization, Description, Cataloging and Digitization of the Historical Documents of the Court (District) of Benguela in collaboration 
                                         with the University of Notre Dame, USA 
• 2015                              Assistant Coordinator of the Research Project on Scientific Research in Archeology and History of Benguela  Province in collaboration with
                                         the University of Paris 1 – Pantheon  – Sorbonne
                            

Recent Publications

• The Importance of Intangible Cultural Heritage Through Preservation and Valorization for the Development of Communities. Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Benguela, 2017, 160–168. Online access: here.
• The Teaching of History and the Valorization of Memory in the Understanding of Local History. A Theoretical Methodological Approach. Higher Institute of Educational Sciences of Benguela, 2017, 81–82. Online access: here².