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Biographies and Liberation in Africa: Life-Writing in Transversal Perspectives

By: Livio Sansone

ISBN: 9789004763357

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Our examination of the biographies in African historiography reveals a tension between the less studied biographies of “ordinary” heroes and the more canonical “approach to the personal stories of "great men" and, now increasingly, great women. Over the last two decades, the biographies of personalities who fought for independence and built new nations have received more attention, most of these studies have been written from national and sometimes even nationalistic frames stressing local boundaries and official history. Our book wants to revert this also by considering the reality of Portuguese-speaking African countries.

Contributors are Fábio Baqueiro, Isabel Casimiro, Teresa Cruz e Sylva, Colin Darch, Ute Fendler, Carlos Fernandes, Patricia Hayes, Paolo Israel, Enoncent Msindo, Clinarete Munguambe, Chapane Mutiua, Livio Sansone, Issa Shivji, Peter Simatei, Antonio Tomas, Cheick Thiam, Valdemir Zamparoni.