Bio notes

Ilda Vaz - is a kontandera, an artist who uses music as a way of telling stories, questioning, thinking and challenging the world. A founding member of the pan-Africanist Batucadeiras Bandeirinahas, she works in the cleaning sector in Lisbon.

Ivânia Vera Cruz - is a philosophy student.  She seeks life, thought and action beyond the limitations of structures.

Jessemusse Cacinda - is a Mozambican author. His novel “Kwashala Blues” was a finalist for the 2024 Mia Couto Literary Prize. He is a PhD candidate in Sociology (Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship) at the University of Coimbra. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, research group - Europe and the Global South. Before coming to Portugal, he was a lecturer at Joaquim Chissano University in Mozambique and founder and director of Ethale Publishing, one of the country's leading publishing houses.

Jéssica Bruno - is a historian, sociologist, master in education, PhD candidate in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship (University of Coimbra), member of the Tribute to Ancestors Collective-PT and researcher for the Angela Davis Collective.

Nuna - is a multi-award-winning Portuguese actress, activist and author with a degree in theatre and research. Her work is based on Afrofuturism and intersectional empowerment, with a special focus on the anti-racist struggle. She has worked and collaborated with the United Nations, the European Union, the Portuguese Presidency, among other institutions, and has also been nominated for awards such as SXSW and OFFIES. Nuna has built a versatile career, marked by the conscious need for global decolonisation, as well as nurturing, valuing and embracing Black women.

Paula Machava - PhD student in Feminist Studies - FLUC/CES. External researcher at the State University of Londrina, under the project “Child and Youth Protection Systems in Angola, Brazil, Mozambique, and Portugal”. She is a reviewer of academic articles for the journal Espaço Académico - Brazil and a university assistant at the Lúrio University in Mozambique.

Peilin Yu - is a PhD candidate in Portuguese Language Literature at FLUC and a master's student in the same programme at the institution. She was first born in the south of China and then reborn several times through encounters with literatures, the most significant of which was with African literatures. She has always been moved by poetry and cinema. She is currently working on a thesis on post-independence Angolan women poets.

Salvador Tito - is a PhD candidate in Portuguese Language Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. He is a researcher at the Group for the Collection and Study of the Oral Corpus of Angolan Portuguese (GRECORPA), at the Angola Research Network and a member in training at the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.