Associated Researchers

  • Albino Jopela

    Albino Jopela holds a MA in Rock Art (2010) from the University of Witwatersrand and graduated with a BA (Honours) in History at Eduardo Mondlane University and a BA (Honours) at the University of Witwatersrand.

    He is lecturer and researcher at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at Eduardo Mondlane University and has works in the fields of conservation and management of cultural heritage. He has carried out research in Mozambique, Angola, South Africa and Kenya and his doctoral project investigates policy and heritage processes in post-colonial Mozambique.

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  • André Cristiano

    André Cristiano holds an MA in sociology (2010) and a BA (Honours) in law (1997) from Coimbra University and coordinates the Research Department at the Centre for Legal and Judicial Training.

    He has extensive research experience in the area of administration of justice, particularly on issues related to courts, access to justice and state reform in Mozambique. His recent research explores development processes and the dynamics of post-colonial societies.

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  • Anselmo Matusse

    Anselmo Matusse holds BAs (Honours) in Social Anthropology and a BA (Honours) in English Language Teaching from Eduardo Mondlane University.

    He also holds a MSc in Environmental Science from Linköping University, Sweden. Currently he is a Social Anthropology doctoral student at the Environmental Humanities – South project at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research explores community natural resources management practices with focus on forests. He is also interested in militarization of conservation, land grabbing, knowledge transfer (land) and local knowledge.

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  • Benedito Machava

    Benedito Machava holds a Ph.D.  and MA in History from the University of Michigan. He also an Honours degree in History and Archaeology from Eduardo Mondlane University.

    He specializes in the history of colonial and postcolonial Southern Africa. In his scholarly work, he combines archival research and oral histories to explore twentieth-century’s political imaginations (nationalist and nativist), decolonization, socialism and socialist experiments, nation-building and citizenship.

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  • Carmeliza Rosário

    Carmeliza Rosário holds a MA in Social Anthropology form Stockholm University (2000) and and MPhil in Development Anthropology from the University of Bergen (2008). She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.

    She has over 15 years of experience as a research consultant. As part of her doctoral studies she is conducting research on memory of women of power and authority in Zambezia. Her current interest is the politics of knowledge production on Mozambique.

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  • Jaco van der Walt

    Jaco van der Walt holds an MA in Archaeology from the University of Witwatersrand (2012) and a BA in Archaeology, Tourism and Cultural Heritage from the University of Pretoria (2001).

    He is a researcher at the University of Johannesburg and his research has focused on the Iron Age, Colonial Period and Stone Age. His work experience includes surveys and archaeological excavations, cultural heritage management and removal and relocation of graves and archaeological impact assessments in South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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  • Liazzat Bonate

    Liazzat Bonate holds MA degrees from SOAS, University of London, UK and Northwestern University, USA, and PhD from the University of Cape Town.

    Over the past two decades, she has conducted research on history and contemporary affairs of northern Mozambique, focusing on coastal communities, Islam, gender, colonialism, matriliny, Arabic script, land and Human Rights, liberation struggle, memory and politics.

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