{"id":10829,"date":"2018-04-09T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=10829"},"modified":"2025-07-13T15:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:13:06","slug":"lisbon-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/lisbon-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lisbon shares with Paris the reputation of being the most African city in Europe. If the French capital\u2019s distinction derives from the predominant number of former Francophone colonies on the continent, then the Portuguese case is far trickier \u2013 a combination of longevity (a 500 year presence on African soil), a history of settler colonialism (particularly in Angola) involving hundreds of thousands of migrants, and a lengthy, vicious and \u2018late\u2019 war waged against the anti-colonial movements in an attempt to keep hold of the country\u2019s African \u201cpossessions.\u201d In other words, a long history of blood \u2013 both shared and spilled.<\/p>\n

Lisbon\u2019s distinctive brand of \u2018africanicity\u2019 \u2013 in all of its subtleties, manifestations, and complexities \u2013 forms the nexus of enquiry for this research strand, which is divided into three principal areas of activity:<\/p>\n

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  1. black people. lisbon<\/strong>. A photographic investigation documenting aspects of the lived experience of predominantly African migrants, culminating in an exhibition and talk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. OPEN MIND SESSIONS<\/strong>. A series of talks\/performances by academics and practitioners. Each session will be inspired by a single thing \u2013 an artwork, a piece of music, a gesture in dance, etc. \u2013 and will invite us along on a magical and intellectual journey across time and space, making linkages with the cultures and histories of the Portuguese African diaspora. The talks are based on the idea that an open mind can see a whole universe in the tiniest object.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. LISBOA NA \u00c1FRICA (LISBON IN AFRICA).<\/strong> A sound documentary constructed around interviews with a range of Africa-based artists (including Ren\u00e9 Tavares, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Edson Pinheiro Chagas, and Kwame Sousa). Like migratory birds that transport seeds to and from far off places, these artists spend regular but varying degrees of time in Lisbon while basing themselves in their home countries. The question is, to what extent do these \u2018seeds\u2019 take root, blossom or bloom in order to fertilise the \u2018soil\u2019 of their home environments?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        The principal investigator for the Lisboa: \u00c1frica na Europa<\/em> research strand is Christabelle Peters, an academic researcher and creative writer with a background in photography, journalism, and media production. Currently, she holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Warwick (UK), where she researches on the transnational cultural politics of identity in the anticolonial and postcolonial contexts of the Iberian Atlantic world.<\/p>\n

        Following on from the publication of her monograph entitled Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience<\/em>(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), her new book project, Angola in the African Atlantic<\/em> proposes an alternative paradigm to Paul Gilroy\u2019s \u2018black Atlantic\u2019 for investigating race in Hispanic and Lusophone societies.<\/p>\n

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