Film still from Suneil Sanzgiri, "My Memory Is Again in the Way of Your History (After Agha Shahid Ali)" (2023), 16 mm film (color, silent): 1 min., looped (courtesy the artist) “What mutual lines of ...

The journey of Portuguese in Africa is a powerful tale of resilience, transformation, and cultural adaptation. What began as a tool of colonial administration has evolved into something deeply rooted ...

This article by Ruth Correia was first published on The Interruptor in Portuguese on May 28, 2021. An English translation has been republished here under a content partnership agreement and has been ...

During Portuguese colonial expansion in the 15th and 16th centuries, the cosmographer served as the carved figurehead at the prow of the ship, the one responsible for the nautical charts that would ...

This article addresses and discusses the Memoirs of Luís Pinto de Sousa Coutinho (1735-1804), 1st Viscount of Balsemão, which were used as sources for the production of the 1780 edition of the ...

I was born in 1975, the same year that Portugal withdrew from its five African colonies—Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde Islands and Guinea-Bissau—becoming the last of the ...

LOWELL — As the smoky aroma of linguiça and the savory goodness of kale soup filled the air around the Holy Ghost Fairgrounds off Rogers Street, the music would begin — the rat-a-tat-tat of the snare ...

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