Desde sempre Portugal contribuiu para o desenvolvimento de Cabo Verde e de São Tomé e Príncipe através do ensino superior que alunos dos dois arquipélagos frequentaram em universidades portuguesas. Como o desenvolvimento do ensino secundário em Cabo Verde era mais avançado, esta colónia tinha proporcionalmente mais estudantes universitários em Portugal do que São Tomé e Príncipe. Durante a época colonial, Portu...
The recent political crisis provoked by the controversial dismissal of Patrice Trovoada’s minority government by a censure motion has again drawn the attention to politics in this small impoverished African island republic that has been marked by political instability since the introduction of a democratic constitution based on the Portuguese semi-presidential regime in 1990. Following the end of Miguel Trovoad...
O Colóquio Internacional São Tomé e Príncipe numa perspectiva interdisciplinar, diacrónica e sincrónica resultou de uma parceria entre investigadores do Centro de Estudos Africanos do ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTEIUL) e do Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT) no quadro de programas de investigação em curso, e visou apresentar e partilhar estudos e resultados de projectos sobre...
Thanks to Brazil’s geographic and demographic size and steady economic growth in recent years, the country has succeeded in consolidating its position as an emerging middle power in the international political system. The strengthening of south-south cooperation in general and the renewal of relations with Africa in particular are integral parts of Brazil’s political ambitions in a new global context. President...
Os artigos reunidos nesta edição dos Cadernos de Estudos Africanos são o resultado de um call for papers por ocasião de 35 anos de independência dos Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa (PALOP), lançado no ano passado. A diversidade da área científica dos autores e a variedade temática dos artigos que recebemos correspondem à própria heterogeneidade que os cinco PALOP representam em termos geográficos,...
After 20 lean years, Manuel Pinto da Costa, the country’s first President after independence (1975-1991), returned to office in early August. He owed his victory to the absence of a charismatic rival candidate and a traditional electoral preference to have a Prime Minister and President from different parties. In the oil sector new hopes have been set on Joint Development Zone (JDZ) Block 1, while exploration d...
On August 7th, in the run-off for the presidential elections, seventy-five years old Manuel Pinto da Costa, the country’s first post-independence President, defeated candidate for the ruling Independent Democratic Action (ADI) Evaristo Carvalho (sixty-nine years old), with 52.9% of the votes against 47.1%. Pinto da Costa has become one of several formear African authoritarian rulers who, after departure from po...
Contrary to the Commonwealth (54 member states) and La Francophonie (56 member states), which include countries whose official language is not the language of the former colonial power, for membership of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) Portuguese as official language is a prerequisite sine qua non. Therefore, when in 2002 Timor Leste became the CPLP’s eigth member, the Lusophone community ...
In 1999, Luís dos Prazeres “Kapala”, a Nigerian-trained airline pilot and, since its inauguration in 2004, the executive director of São Tomé and Príncipe’s National Oil Agency (ANP), became the country’s first minister of natural resources. Since then, the small country has had another eleven ministers in charge of the oil portfolio.
In December 1989, São Tomé and Príncipe was the first African one-party state to hold a National Conference and decide on a transition to multiparty democracy. On January 20th 1991, the archipelago was the second African country – after Cape Verde a week prior – to hold democratic elections. Since then, both legislative and presidential elections have been organized regularly and peacefully. All these elections...
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