Cuidados biomédicos de saúde em Angola e na Companhia de Diamantes de Angola, c. 1910-1970

Pretende-se caracterizar a prestação de cuidados biomédicos em Angola durante a atividade da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. Uma análise comparativa de políticas e práticas de saúde pública de vários atores coloniais, como os serviços de saúde da Companhia, sua congénere do Estado e outras empresas coloniais, revelará diferenças de investimento na saúde, isto é, instalações e pessoal de saúde, e tratamentos. Este escrutínio bem como as condições de vida iluminarão o carácter idiossincrático e central dos serviços de saúde da Companhia em termos de morbimortalidade em Angola, e a centralidade destes para as representações de um império cuidador

“It’s all about money”: urban–rural spaces and relations in Maputo, Mozambique

Within the anthropological urban scholarship on sub-Saharan Africa, there is a shared notion of the continued, and in some cases reemerging, importance of rural spaces, values and relations in cities and towns. In Mozambique's capital city, Maputo, associations with the rural are shaped by the urban dwellers' different positions on a scale of social (dis)advantage. This has led to very diverse types of engagement with the rural among the population, primarily differentiated along positions of class but also gender and age. For the best-off, who are able to live up to urban expectations, the rural is seen to have little to offer and is largely disregarded. For the poorest and most destitute, rural areas are effectively out of reach and unheeded. For the rest, the rural continues to be an important part of their cosmologies and struggles to survive albeit without losing their urban base and identity

Southern Africa

Set during the devastating war in Mozambique in the 1980s, Lília Momplé's short novel Neighbours tells the story of some few individuals in the capital of Maputo. Neighbours is as good a place as any to begin exploring the notion of “Southern Africa.” A distinctive aspect of Southern African literature from the twentieth century is what Ranka Primorac has identified as a “frontline” imaginary. The discussion is guided by the assumption that Southern African literature is formed by and to some extent formative of the embattled modernities of the subcontinent. In this chapter, special attention is paid to how verbal art is conditioned by its main enabling media technologies, orality and print, but without assuming a teleological progression from one to the other, or rigid boundaries between them.  </p