The winner of the fourth Amílcar Cabral Prize, Pedro Cerdeira, will be in Lisbon next week, where he will take part in the event ‘Desconstruir o Colonialismo: Entre Tradição e Revolução’ [Deconstructing Colonialism: Between Tradition and Revolution] on 5 May at the Monument to the Discoveries.

To mark the award ceremony, the IHC has organised an afternoon of various activities, including an open lecture by Víctor Barros (Independências africanas, imaginários e constelações de lutas), the presentation and discussion of three research projects by IHC PhD students (Henrique Oliveira, Rebeca Ávila and Samira Miranda) and, finally, a lecture by the award winner (Escolas rurais, cooperativas agrícolas e a recriação colonial tardia da ruralidade africana na Guiné-Bissau). Admission is free.

Pedro Cerdeira is a researcher at the University of Geneva, where he studies the dynamics of power and control in the cities of Guinea-Bissau during the late colonial period, as postdoc of the project ‘Living with authoritarian repression: everyday life history under the Estado Novo in Portugal’s African colonies and in Portugal, 1926-74’. He completed his PhD at the same university in 2022 with the thesis ‘The administrator, the chief, and the officer. Making and remaking the local administration in late colonial Guinea-Bissau (1961-1974)’.