Linda Heywood
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Associate Professor
at the Boston University, USA. Important works on Angola, especially
on the history of the Central Highland and on the socio-political consequences
of caravan trade, recently also on the Angolan diaspora; including:
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Selected Bibliography: – Production
Trade and Power: the Political Economy of Central Angola, 1850–1930.
PhD thesis 1985; – “Growth
and Decline of African Agriculture in Central Angola, 1890–1950”, Journal of Southern African Studies 13(3),
1987; – “Slavery
and Forced Labor in the Changing Political Economy of Central Angola,
1850–1949,” in: Suzanne Miers and Richard Roberts (eds.), The End of Slavery in Africa. Madison 1988; – (ed.) The African Diaspora: Africans and their Descendants
in the Wider World Since 1800. Boston 1989; – “Towards
an Understanding of Modern Political Ideology in Africa: The Case of
the Ovimbundu of Central Angola”, Journal
of Modern African Studies 36, 1998, pp. 138-167; – “Ovimbundu
women and social change, 1880–1926”, in: Maria Emília Madeira Santos
(ed.), A África e a Instalação do Sistema Colonial
(c. 1885 – c. 1930). III Reunião Internacional de História de
África – Actas.
Lisbon 2000, pp. 441-453; – Contested
Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present. Rochester 2000; – (ed.) Central
Africans in the American Diaspora: An Understudied Dimension of the
African Diaspora. Cambridge 2001. |
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