Liazzat Bonate, a lecturer in African History at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago joined Kaleidoscopio last January as a research associate. Dr. 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. At Kaleidoscopio, she has integrated the working group conducting research on slavery, memory and the ocean.
