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News Read More The Historical Constraints of Africa South-South Cooperation: 30 years of TICAD through the lenses of South-South-Triangular Cooperation News Read More Multiplexing Corporate Power: Navigating corporate autonomy in the EU Global Gateway News Read More Open Call to the IV EJICLP África News Read More Roundtable “Contemporary challenges in Post-colonial Times” News Read More From the ‘Marxist-Leninist’ One-Party System to the Neoliberal Hegemonic Party: Fifty Years of Authoritarian Paternalism in Angola and Mozambique News Read More Obstacles to US Pension Fund Investment in Africa News Read More NEW DATE: O testamento do Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araújo News Read More Interview with Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster for Afrolink: “Film is politics. We want to support a movement where Afro-descendants do not beg to be seen.” News Read More The Indian Ocean as a Creative Horizon News Read More #DemocracyinAction: African and afro-descendant videomakers take part in intensive workshop on Storytelling, Narratives and Power News Read More Travelling exhibition Deconstructing Colonialism, Decolonising the Imaginary

  The Working Paper CEsA/ISEG Research No. 207/2025, entitled The Historical Constraints of Africa South–South Cooperation: 30 Years of TICAD through the Lenses of South-South-Triangular Cooperation, analyses the three decades since the Tokyo International Conference…

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The CEsA/ISEG Research Working Paper No. 206/2025, entitled Multiplexing Corporate Power: Navigating corporate autonomy in the EU Global Gateway, presents the conceptual framework of “geoeconomic force multiplexing”, which explains how corporations process public inputs across…

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  The 4th Conference of Young Researchers of the CPLP-Africa will take place from 25 to 27 March 2026, in Maputo, Mozambique, under the theme “Cultural Diversity, Digital Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge: Building Sustainable Futures…

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  Museus e Monumentos de Portugal, the National Museum of Ethnology, CEsA – Centre for African and Development Studies (ISEG RESEARCH/ISEG/Universidade de Lisboa) are pleased to invite you to the Roundtable Contemporary challenges in Post-colonial…

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The Development Studies Seminars are an initiative that, since 1991, promotes research carried out in the areas of study of the Masters in Development and International Cooperation (MCDI) of ISEG and the PhD Programme in…

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The CEsA/ISEG Research Working Paper No. 205/2025, entitled Obstacles to US Pension Fund Investment in Africa, seeks to identify the reasons behind the lack of investment in the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a multilateral financial…

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Events

4th Conference of Young Researchers of the CPLP-Africa 4th Conference of Young Researchers of the CPLP-Africa
Theme: Cultural Diversity, Digital Innovation and Ancestral Knowledge: Building Sustainable Futures in Africa
Date: 25-27 March 2026
Maputo, Mozambique ...
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Publications

Working Paper 207/2025: The Historical Constraints of Africa South-South Cooperation: 30 years of TICAD through the lenses of South-South-Triangular Cooperation Working Paper 207/2025: The Historical Constraints of Africa South-South Cooperation: 30 years of TICAD through the lenses of South-South-Triangular Cooperation Abstract
Placing emphasis on the concepts of self-reliance and self-help, this paper contributes to the broad literature on South-South and Triangular cooperation, first, to understand its conceptual significance to south-south cooperation; second, to understand why from an historical perspective south-south cooperation has not advanced in Africa;
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Working Paper 206/2025: Multiplexing Corporate Power: Navigating corporate autonomy in the EU Global Gateway Working Paper 206/2025: Multiplexing Corporate Power: Navigating corporate autonomy in the EU Global Gateway Abstract
The EU’s Global Gateway initiative relies on corporations to achieve geoeconomic goals, creating structural dependence on actors with autonomous transformation capacity. By analyzing official documents and three flagship projects (Lobito Corridor (Angola), Dakar BRT (Senegal), and Lumut Maritime Industrial City (Malaysia)) I develop a “geoeconomic
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Visa policy and its potential on attracting inbound tourism flows in Angola Visa policy and its potential on attracting inbound tourism flows in Angola Abstract
Over time, tourism has accompanied the evolution of societies and today it is often considered as a driver of economic and social development for many countries. Despite this, Angola continues to record relatively low numbers of international flows of tourists. According to Angola’s Tourism Master
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Direitos Humanos, Económicos e Sociais em São Tomé e Príncipe Direitos Humanos, Económicos e Sociais em São Tomé e Príncipe Abstract
The 2024 report on Economic and Social Human Rights in São Tomé and Príncipe, developed within the scope of the projects “Observatory of Policies and Governance in São Tomé and Príncipe” and “Better Governance, More Rights, More Citizenship”, presents a detailed analysis of the Santomean
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Working Paper 205/2025: Obstacles to US Pension Fund Investment in Africa Working Paper 205/2025: Obstacles to US Pension Fund Investment in Africa Abstract





The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has been unable to raise capital from US pension funds despite its success in attracting investment from a diverse range of institutional investors. This article combines a case study of the AFC, consultations with senior-level professionals and experts, and a
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Pathways for Black Studies in Portugal. A New Field of Knowledge and Research Pathways for Black Studies in Portugal. A New Field of Knowledge and Research Abstract:
Reflecting on contemporary epistemologies of European Blackness
Long absent from research in the humanities and social sciences, Black people in continental Europe have become the focus of a growing body of literature in the past two decades that addresses their unique history and social positioning. Black
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