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In the present paper I discuss the assumptions and significance of some of the theses and techniques behind Portuguese colonial land policies in Africa between the mid-1920s and the 1940s, and discuss their role in the Portuguese colonial project. I particularly address the extent to which, both in national and international discussion fora on colonial topics, as well as in official discourse, through the voice of politicians in the metropole as well as colonial administrators and experts, arguments in favour of African access to individual property, for different purposes, gained ground. These arguments went against the dominant perspective in Portuguese colonial thought between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which dictated the limited access of Africans to the land for instance in the name of economic development of colonial territories, the fight against land speculation and the safeguarding of Portuguese sovereignty in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article revisits the long genealogy of State intervention in informal settlements and poorly built environments throughout the 20th century, in cities such as Lisbon, Porto, Rio de Janeiro, Maputo or Macau, to better frame some socio-technical complexities involved in the current project of slum rehabilitation in Cova da Moura, Lisbon. Then, it draws upon ethnographic research with experts from the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (LNEC) during a scientific assessment of informal dwellings to show that the "evaluation" of informal dwellings with a view to "reconfigure" them, is a socio-technical operation based on a "laboratorisation" of the dwelling, but one that is crucially dependent on the subjective-objective experience of experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I propose to describe some examples of dialectics of repression and resistance between the PIDE and other police authorities in Angola, and an indigenous religious movement, the "Tokoist Church" between the 1950s and 1970s. Firstly, I describe the motivations, fears and expectations of the agents of the pide, contrasted with the reactions of leaders and followers of this church who were subject to the campaigns of "securitization" of the colony. And secondly, I will portrait the legacy of the memory that emerged within this movement in contemporary Angola, in which the experience of colonial repression produced a "history of suffering" that reverberates today through narratives of resilience and the particular reaffirmation of an "Angolanness" that was often marked by reversals and ironies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last decades of Portuguese colonialism, policies destined to Muslim populations of Guinea and Mozambique turned from hostility to a strategy of seduction, with the aim of promoting a "Portuguese Islam" and using some Islamic groups in the struggle against nationalist African movements. Such a transition included a transnational dimension, as some actors within the Portuguese administration wanted to intervene in a larger strategic space known as the "Islamic world". This article tries to analyze that intervention, focusing on its geopolitical thought and its diplomatic fulfillment, particularly in what concerns the relations with the Arab countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the International meeting on Sports and leisure in Africa that was held in October 2014 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Topics discussed includes colonialism, history of Africa under Portuguese sovereignty and sports events and activities related to leisure in Portuguese colonial history.