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João Fusco Ribeiro
@joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social
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Historian specializing in Angolan liberation movements and decolonization in Lusophone Africa.
Research Fellow at the Political Science Research Centre (CICP), University of Évora, Portugal.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-0600
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João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social · Nov 1
Great to see on paper mine and Helder's chapter on the Angolan Decolonization process, specially as we draw close to the country's 50 years aniversary.
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📢📢New article! How did apartheid South Africa weather the 1973–74 oil crisis? Despite sanctions, no oil reserves, and global recession, the immediate impact was limited. This article explores why, and how the crisis was turned into political capital.

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Construction of Sasol One.
December 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Apply by Friday, 19 December, for a chance to participate in the @miasa-ug.bsky.social Publishing Workshop! 👇
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I have a new article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the Jesuits and their role as agents of the Inquisition in Angola.

It is now available as an advance article: brill.com/view/journal...
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December 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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My new open access article is out now! It continues my research into the Polish People's Republics' engagements with Francophone West Africa during the Cold War. Enjoy! resgestae.uken.krakow.pl/issue/view/802
December 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Congresso Internacional dos 50 anos da Independências Africanas na FLUL, que incluiu várias comunicações interessantes, e onde apresentámos um paper focado nas ligações do MPLA com o mundo comunista durante a descolonização.
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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ihchistory.bsky.social
📘 O livro "The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-1975", editado por Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta e Aurora Almada e Santos vai ser apresentado na FLUL, no âmbito do Congresso Internacional Independências Africanas, por Marissa Moorman.
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Apresentação do livro "The Liberation of Portuguese Africa" | IHC
O livro editado por Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta e Aurora Almada e Santos vai ser apresentado na FLUL por Marissa Moorman.
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December 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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I wrote a piece on the 1969 coups in Sudan, Libya, and Somalia that reshaped the region and whose impacts are still visible t/day.

I profile Barre, Nimeiri, and Gaddafi—the 'Class of 69'—exploring their ideological shifts and Nasser’s influence on them

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Northeast Africa's dictators: the class of 69'
From Tripoli to Mogadishu, a generation of officers vowed to finish what independence started. Fifty years later, their coupvolutions still haunt the region.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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#Entretien #guineebissau🇬🇼 Les Bissau-Guinéens votent ce 23 novembre. Bubacar Turé (Ligue guinéenne des #droitshumains), s’inquiète d’une situation dégradée que ce soit dans le domaine des droits humains ou sur le plan politique.
📌 #Democracy @fidh-official.bsky.social @ldh.fr
Guinée-Bissau. « Embaló a une conception autoritaire du pouvoir » - Entretien
Les Bissau-Guinéens sont appelés aux urnes le dimanche 23 novembre. Bubacar Turé, le président de la Ligue guinéenne des droits humains (LGDH), s’inquiète d’une situation dégradée dans le pays, (…)
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November 23, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Artigo meu e do Helder Adegar Fonseca publicado no Diário de Notícias sobre os debates e combates em torno da História da Independência de Angola.

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Meio Século de Angola: A Memória e a História da Independência em Debate
As comemorações dos cinquenta anos da independência de Angola reabriram o debate público em torno da resistência do governo em reconhecer, entre os homenageados
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November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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In Tanzania, hundreds of people were killed last month as security forces crushed post-election protests.

The scale of the unrest, and the government’s crackdown, mark a critical turning point for the country.
A Brutal Post-Election Crackdown in Tanzania Leaves Lasting Scars
After hundreds of people were reported killed by security forces, experts say the country will never be the same.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Assinado. Ideia essencial: "A responsabilidade política pelo desenvolvimento da ciência deve permanecer no domínio da ciência. Distribuí-la por várias tutelas não resolve qualquer problema".
Pode subscrever até segunda-feira dia 17.

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Por uma Ciência Autónoma, Ambiciosa e Responsável
É inegável que a ciência portuguesa enfrenta sérias dificuldades que há muito temos vindo a apontar, designadamente nos manifestos pela ciência de 2011 e 2018 e no manifesto conjunto de cientistas e e...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Il y a 50 ans, le 11 novembre 1975, déclarations d’indépendance en Angola - à Luanda par le MPLA avec Agostinho Neto et à Huambo par le FNLA et l’UNITA avec Jonas Savimbi - mettant fin au long et complexe processus de décolonisation des anciennes colonies portugaises en Afrique
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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CFP: Colonial Violence, Resistance and Legacy in Africa: Perspectives and Critiques

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158639

Lomé, 21.04.2026-23.04.2026, Association des Historiens et des Archéologues du Togo, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.12.2025
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November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social
Quais foram as redes internacionais de solidariedade que apoiaram a luta armada da UNITA? Esta é a questão que procurei responder no artigo publicado no número especial da Afro-Ásia dedicado à História de Angola e que reúne outras contribuições de grande interesse.
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n. 71 (2025) | Afro-Ásia
Editores: Edilza Correia Sotero, Marcelo Moura Mello e Thiago C. SapedeEditoras de resenhas: Gabriela dos Reis Sampaio e Iacy Maia MataAssistentes editoriais: Gabriela Queiroz Santos e Jhon Wanderson Nogueira SantanaCapa: Zeo Antonelli sobre Loja de ervas, de Gê Viana (2020). Colagem digital da série "Atualizações Traumáticas de Debret".
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social
Great to see on paper mine and Helder's chapter on the Angolan Decolonization process, specially as we draw close to the country's 50 years aniversary.
November 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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I had the wonderful opportunity to chat to Miranda Melcher about my book on urban aesthetics, Angola, oil and Indigenous urbanisms in Africa. Hosted of course by the fabulous @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

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Podcast Episode · New Books in African Studies · 10/31/2025 · 58m
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October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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📖 New article online!

'Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67' by Bartosz Matyja

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Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67 | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Pioneering the European Détente: Socialist Poland’s Involvement with GATT and the EEC, 1957–67
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October 20, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Today it has been 500 days since researcher/humanitarian Joseph Figuera Martin has been unjustly imprisoned in the Centr. Afr. Republic. We call for his immediate release: www.demorgen.be/meningen/hum...
And we must talk about researcher safety!
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Humanitaire hulpverleners zoals Joseph verdienen bescherming, geen gevangenis
500 dagen is het dat de Belgisch-Portugese hulpverlener Joseph Figueira Martin willekeurig wordt vastgehouden in de Centraal-Afrikaanse Republiek. ‘Mobilisatie doet ertoe’, argumenteren Olivier Vandec...
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October 8, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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🚨 The @unesco.org just released volumes 9, 10, 11 of its monumental “General History of Africa”, a massive project launched 60 years ago with a clear goal: to tell the history of Africa from an African perspective. www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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faisalahali.bsky.social
My latest blogpost looks at the almost simultaneous collapse of Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia's governments at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s

89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience”

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89'-91: Northeast Africa's “collective near-death experience”
Between 1989 and 1991, every government from Chad to Somalia collapsed. The region still grapples with the legacy of this tumultous period.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The article on Polish–Angolan relations is out in the Journal of Cold War History.

It explores an asymmetrical relationship shaped by anti-imperialist solidarity and economic pragmatism, but also marked by tensions, disappointments, and corruption.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Unlocking Opportunities: Polish economic interactions in Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975–1981)1
This article examines the economic interactions between the Polish People’s Republic and the People’s Republic of Angola in the aftermath of decolonisation (1975-1981) and explores in detail Warsaw...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Lisboetas, não percam a esperança. Com Moedas e a IL ao comando, agora é que isto vai ser um conto de fadas 🏰💫
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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ihchistory.bsky.social
📰 Sandro Moiso publicou uma recensão a da obra "L’Addio all’Impero 1975: l’indipendenza delle colonie portoghesi", editada este ano em Itália:
"extremamente útil para compreender o percurso do declínio de um imperialismo, primeiro português e depois ocidental"
www.carmillaonline.com/2025/09/24/l...
Lo schianto di un imperialismo straccione
di Sandro Moiso Fernando Rosas, Mário Artur Machaqueiro, Pedro Aires Oliveira (a cura di), L’Addio [...]
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September 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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5 octobre 1910 : proclamation de la République au Portugal 🇵🇹 115e anniversaire aujourd’hui sans discours officiels, en raison de la proximité des élections municipales (12 octobre)
October 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Proofreading time! This one was such a fun article to write on Polish–Angolan relations during the Cold War :)
October 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM