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  Lusophony in Africa
The relationships of domination and exploitation that were established during the colonial period were central to the shaping of the state and the articulation of state-society relations.
Yet, the wave of democratic transitions that spread across Lusophone African countries during the 1980s has encountered serious difficulties which, if they are to be understood, must be located in the historical processes that have helped to shape each of these countries.
Social researchers, whether Lusophone or not, are invited to reflect on the various analytical issues generated by the experiences of the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa.
www.codesria.org /Links/Research/luso/lusophony05.htm   (976 words)

  
 Lusophone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Lusophone is someone who speaks the Portuguese language natively or by adoption.
As an adjective, it means "Portuguese-speaking." The word itself is derived from the name of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which covered an area that is today Portugal.
Lusophone countries include Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, East Timor, Macau and others in various parts of the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lusophone   (216 words)

  
 Lusophone music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In varying forms, the genre has dominated Portuguese music since the early 20th century, and has also spread to its former colonies, especially Brazil and the African colonies (Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Angola), while having a lesser influence on the Asian colonies of Sri Lanka and East Timor.
Of all the Lusophone countries, the one with the most internationally renowned popular music is probably Brazil.
Mozambique boasts popular timbila and marrabenta music, and Guinea-Bissau's gumbe scene once thrived; Angolan semba accentuates the later crosscultural linking between the Lusophone countries -- it is related to Brazilian samba, but the origins of both are murky and unclear.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lusophone_music   (221 words)

  
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The idea of a Lusophone Fair was created with two purposes in mind.
The Lusophone Fair will provide a vital platform for community and business leaders to educate the public about the tremendous opportunities and challenges associated with this population growth.
The multiple benefits to both these students and those unfamiliar with the rich diversity of the Lusophone world promises to make this academic and cultural event a memorable one at UGA.
www.uga.edu /rom/lusophone_fair/description_eng.htm   (391 words)

  
 Ignes Fatui FAQ lookup - "lusophone"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In micronationalism, the term has an added significance, since a large number of micronations are located in Brazil, and are populated almost exclusively by lusophone citizens.
This language difficulty is not aided by the belief, current in some circles on both sides of the language gap, that computer-aided translation services such as Babelfish can be relied upon, without further effort, to translate texts between the two languages.
The results of abuse of Babelfish are often unintentionally hilarious, as when the Portuguese phrase for "Year of Our Lord" becoms "Year of Ours Mister", in the rather literal-minded computer translation.
www.corvinia.org /ignes/ignfaq/lusophone.html   (133 words)

  
 African Literature - MSN Encarta
Portugal’s African empire was small compared with the empires of France and Great Britain, and Lusophone works are not as readily available in English translation as are Francophone works.
Beginning in the 1940s, Lusophone prose writers sought to provide a more authentic image of Africa than that popularized by colonial writers, which tended toward racism.
The new trend in Lusophone African literature manifests itself mainly in poetry and combines an interest in issues of identity, ethnicity, alienation, and language with what one critic has described as tropical sensuousness.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555353_4____14/African_Literature.html   (1026 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Assis Malaquias on Community and the State in Lusophone Africa
Lusophone African countries have experienced a particularly problematic transition from colonies to statehood.
What is included is a reasonably deep discussion of some of the issues that have constrained the development of stable states in key lusophone African countries and, at least in the case of Mozambique, a discussion of how some of those critical issues were addressed.
Mozambique, the other lusophone African country, to which half of the book is dedicated, presents similar issues.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=93741109090203   (2719 words)

  
 LUSOGLOBE
It is spoken by nearly 40 percent of the population in countries bordering the southern Atlantic rim region, around which eight metropolitan areas use the language.
The purpose of the Lusophone Globalicities working group is to enhance understanding of cultural texts and dynamics that have resulted from the centuries-long networks of exchange among and beyond Portuguese-speaking regions in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
Lusophone Globalicities is led by Richard Gordon (OSU Spanish and Portuguese Department) and Daniel Avorgbedor (OSU African and African American Studies and School of Music).
library.osu.edu /sites/latinamerica/lusoglobe.htm   (357 words)

  
 Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies Homepage
With Portugal's established position in the European Union, the growth of Brazil's economy and the emerging markets in Angola and Mozambique, the Lusophone world anticipates a bright future full of opportunities for students who study its language, culture and history.
A major/minor in Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies prepares students for careers in business and finance, foreign affairs, international trade, education, medicine, healthcare, and public service.
Together, these new faculty members have developed a broad curriculum in Portuguese and Lusophone studies, initiated an undergraduate major and minor and organized a program of community outreach.
andromeda.rutgers.edu /~plws/default1.htm   (487 words)

  
 ASQ -- A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa. Patrick Chabal (with David Birmingham, Joshua Forrest, Malyn Newitt, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Chabal in part one seeks to furnish a comprehensive history of Lusophone Africa by pulling together common themes from the shared experience of Portuguese colonialism, apart from language.
For him, postcolonial Lusophone Africa is not significantly distinct from that of the rest of the continent.
The bibliography, compiled by Caroline Shaw, references texts applicable for the study of Lusophone Africa, but is by no means extensive and is difficult to navigate.
web.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v8/v8i2a19.htm   (895 words)

  
 A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa / Indiana University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The book places the postcolonial experience of the Lusophone countries within the context of their precolonial and colonial past and compares and contrasts their experience with that of non-Lusophone African states.
Patrick Chabal is Professor of Lusophone African Studies, University of London, and Head of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King's College, London.
Gerhard Seibert, a researcher on contemporary Lusophone Africa, is the author of Comrades, Clients, and Cousins: Colonialism, Socialism, and Democratization in São Tomé e Pr'ncipe.
www.iupress.indiana.edu /catalog/product_info.php?products_id=21256   (484 words)

  
 Rural women, population and development in Lusophone African countries - An annotated bibliography of selected ...
Removing cultural, political and other barriers between the receivers and donors is a precondition for effective international transfer of knowledge and technical assistance for development.
These countries, their institutions and individual experts, have not been as intensively integrated in the implementation of FAO/UNFPA TSS as those from the majority of countries belonging to the Anglophone and Francophone parts of Africa.
Through annotations of nearly one hundred selected references, this Bibliography thus intends to shed more light on the manner in which the theme of Women, Population and Development (WPD) figures in the main focus, or as part of broader interpretations of agriculture and rural development issues in the PALOPs.
www.fao.org /docrep/x0258e/x0258e.htm   (650 words)

  
 Call for Papers: Lusophone Africa Intersections Between the Social Sciences, 05/03
Cornell University's Institute for African Development announces a conference focusing on Lusophone African countries to be held in collaboration with Cornell's Poverty, Inequality, and Development Initiative and Cornell's Department of History.
It is an explicit goal of this conference to build on the growing network sponsored by the Lusophone Africa Studies Organization, and to help create and promote Lusophone studies as an active and interdisciplinary field of inquiry.
Accordingly, Lusophone Africa remains in what can be considered the immediate post-colonial period and faces problems related to the civil and political disruptions that surrounded independence.
www.africa.upenn.edu /Current_Events/lushcfp0503.html   (600 words)

  
 Lusophone literature : an introduction
If it remains characteristic of Lusophone Africa that to have one's books published requires a great degree of luck and kow-towing to the right people, again the challenge is far greater for women than it is for men.
Neither do I attempt to compare their role in the creation or development of a Lusophone African sensitivity which in time came to be crucial to the anti-colonialist struggle against the Portuguese.
Although dismissed by some critics of Lusophone African writing as strong in anger but short on technique, de Sousa's poetry does more for the articulation of genuinely Mozambican identity than the writing of her more popular male colleagues.
aflit.arts.uwa.edu.au /FEMECintroLU.html   (3260 words)

  
 The Lusophone World: A UGA Libraries Exhibit
This exhibit was created in coordination with the recent Lusophone Fair, held on March 28, 2003, which exposed the university community to the unique cultural and artistic diversity of the Portuguese-speaking world.
We have tried to highlight the several areas of the world where Portuguese is a predominant language.
One case also displays the many scholarly contributions of the UGA community to the expansion of understanding the Lusophone world.
www.libs.uga.edu /mediadept/news/lusophone/index.html   (109 words)

  
 Universidade do Minho: Registo 1822/955
The project «Lusocom: a Study of Communications policies and discourses in the Lusophone Space» is about communications and the media; social representation, memory and identity; language policy and discourses.
From the Communications Sciences perspective, the Lusophone Space seems to be a promising (though volatile) research object.
We believe that the Lusophone construct in its diversity will help us to demonstrate that solidarities resulting from a common language and from the miscegenation of memories and traditions have very concrete social, political and economic consequences.
repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt /handle/1822/955   (748 words)

  
 TiriWEB - PIEN - Lusófono/Lusophone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The coordinator for PIEN Lusophone is Artur Victoria (avc@vianw.pt).
The Lusophone Public Integrity Education Network aims at strengthening the capacities of universities, experts, and specialists in the region and at supporting the introduction of locally developed courses reflecting the needs and expectations of the region and/or respective country/countries.
PIEN - Lusophone will provide a framework in which members and participants can access, develop and share resources that will promote the transfer of skills required for effective public integrity reform.
tiriweb.tiri.org /cmps_index.php?page=pien_lusophone   (385 words)

  
 Ph.D. in Hispanic & Lusophone Literatures & Linguistics : Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies : ...
A Doctor of Philosophy is expected to make scholarly contributions that will expand and enrich his or her own field of specialization through the development of new areas of research.
The degree is awarded in recognition of high attainment and ability in a special subject field as demonstrated by passing the required examinations and successfully defending a thesis that is based on original research and that makes a significant contribution to knowledge in the candidate’s field.
While the student's program involves at least some work in all areas within the Department, the focus shall be in his or her area of emphasis.
spanport.cla.umn.edu /grad/phd.php   (1107 words)

  
 FM says Lisbon seeks bolstered ties with both Lusophone bloc and EU
Portugal: FM says Lisbon seeks bolstered ties with both Lusophone bloc and EU Lisbon, March 22 (Lusa) - Foreign Minister Diogo Freitas do Amaral says Lisbon's new Socialist government intends to increase its cooperation with Portuguese-speaking African countries and East Timor, while simultaneously seeking a more dynamic role within the European Union.
Portugal's new head of diplomacy, a former conservative leader and losing rightwing candidate in a fiercely fought 1986 presidential poll won by former Socialist leader Mario Soares, said he had received invitations to visit Angola, Sao Tome and Brazil "in the near future".
Lisbon must not neglect its ties with Europe at the expense of revitalized relations with the Lusophone bloc, he cautioned, and Portugal will have a more clout within the EU through boosting its presence in Africa.
www.etan.org /et2005/march/20/22fm.htm   (358 words)

  
 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Free Kareem: Lusophone Blogs Join the Crusade
Amongst the wave of posts about Kareen’s sentence, a lusophone voice cried out for attention: The Portuguese blogger António Caldeira affirms being at risk of facing 32 years in prison for content published on his blog.
Media reports mentions that the real problem was the disclosure of documents that were being kept in secret of justice.
The accusation does not aim only at him, but it is a strong message from the stablished powers to the Lusophone blogosphere.
www.globalvoicesonline.org /2007/02/24/free-kareem-lusophone-blogs-join-the-crusade   (2123 words)

  
 Graduate Information : Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies : University of Minnesota
Graduate Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics
The four specialized area components are fully integrated in these degree programs, so that the M.A. candidates and Ph.D. candidates may follow courses of study involving the various fields.
 The program in Lusophone literatures and cultures is one of the few in the nation that focuses on the Portuguese-speaking world as a whole and in its parts.  Graduate students may also take courses in related departments and programs, such as Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Linguistics, History, the Human Rights Program, among others.
spanport.umn.edu /grad   (300 words)

  
 Trade and Environment in Lusophone Countries.
Phase I of the project will assess problems arising in the field of international trade and environment in Lusophone countries, as well as identify capacity building/training needs and possible solutions to the existing problems will be identified.
Objective: To identify the problems encountered in Mozambique, Cape Verte and Sao Tome and Principe in the field of international trade and environment, and to seek, in particular through an adapted training programme, to design a plan of action to enhance the conditions of development of international trade in these countries.
Activity 1: A short UNCTAD mission (one week in each country) will take place in these countries, in order to examine with national authorities all aspects related to the definition of a plan for developing international trade in the field of environment, closely associating a particularly adapted capacity building programme in that field.
r0.unctad.org /trade_env/test1/projects/lusophone.htm   (1341 words)

  
 Joana Filipa da Silva de Melo Vilela Passos: Micro-universes and Situated Critical Theory: Postcolonial and Feminist ...
The three Lusophone texts (literature written in Portuguese, though it is not Portuguese literature) are compared to the Indo-English texts in order to assess different evolutions in the sense of national identity in these postcolonial contexts, concerning:
Furthermore, the developed approach demonstrated the worth of a feminist study to discuss and revise models of collective identity criss-crossing with the critical assessment of current postcolonial societies.
Finally, this research tried to promote Lusophone literatures (by comparing them to such an established case as Indo-English literature) and map a small genealogy of women's writing in world literatures.
igitur-archive.library.uu.nl /dissertations/2003-0310-101002/inhoud.htm   (446 words)

  
 CVMusicWorld.com | Music | New Album Features Lusophone Artists
Singers Lura, Maria Alice, Tito Paris and Sara Tavares are part of the latest compilation album, joining some of the biggest names in the Lusophone music world.
The album, entitled lisboa@com.fusion, gathers 17 tracks performed by lusophone artists around the world through diverse sounds normally heard in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
Under direction of EMI Music, lisboa@com.fusion was produced by lusophone music specialist, Ariel Bigault.
cvmusicworld.com /news_articles/templates/music.aspx?articleid=564&...   (193 words)

  
 University Press of Florida: Transculturation and Resistance in Lusophone African Narrative   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The literary project of "narrating a nation" remains uncertain, but Peres’s book draws from the particulars of the Angolan experience to reach broader conclusions about patterns of narrative resistance and transculturation applicable to the literatures of other emerging nations and identities.
Given the growing interest in Lusophone African literature in the United States and the increasing availability of such works in translation, Peres’s book should prove particularly valuable to students of Luso-Brazilian studies, colonial and postcolonial African literatures, and comparative literature.
Phyllis Peres is associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a regular contributor to various scholarly journals on African, Brazilian, and Portuguese literatures and colonial discourse.
www.upf.com /book.asp?id=PERESS97   (354 words)

  
 Portuguese & Lusophone World Studies
With Portugal's established position within the European Union, the explosive growth of Brazil's economy and the emerging markets in Angola and Mozambique, the Lusophone world anticipates a bright future full of opportunities for students who study its language, culture and history.
A minor in Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies prepares students for careers in business and finance, foreign affairs, international trade, education, medicine, healthcare, and public service.
The minor in Portuguese and Lusophone World Studies is interdisciplinary.
www.newark.rutgers.edu /cmll/portuguese.html   (954 words)

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