Development Studies Seminars 2025-2026 | From the ‘Marxist-Leninist’ One-Party System to the Neoliberal Hegemonic Party: Fifty Years of Authoritarian Paternalism in Angola and Mozambique

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 Development Studies of the University of Lisbon

Development Studies Seminars 2025-2026

Topic: From the ‘Marxist-Leninist’ One-Party System to the Neoliberal Hegemonic Party: Fifty Years of Authoritarian Paternalism in Angola and Mozambique (original title: Do Partido Único ‘Marxista-Leninista’ ao Partido Hegemónico Neoliberal: Cinquenta anos de paternalismo autoritário em Angola e Moçambique)
Presenter: Professor Michel Cahen (CNRS-LAM/Science Po Bordeaux, France, & CEsA/ISEG Research/ISEG-Universidade de Lisboa)
Date: 11 November 2025 (Tuesday)
Time: 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Venue: Novo Banco Room, 4th Floor Quelhas Building, ISEG (Access by Rua do Quelhas 6 1200-731, Lisbon, Portugal)
Free admission, in person event. Lecture in English.

About the presenter

Michel Cahen is Emeritus Director of Research of the CNRS at the “Les Afriques dans le monde” Center, at the Institut D’études Politiques de Bordeaux (or “Sciences Po Bordeaux”). Historiator, he is a specialist on contemporary Portuguese colonial history in Africa and a political analyst of the PALOPs. He also works on the relations between Portugal, Brazil and Africa, on the ideology of lusophony and luso-tropicalism, on coloniality and the postcolonial/decolonial, on creolizations. He has also worked on the connection between fascism and colonialism.

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