Mbuta Zawua

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Cognitive whore - Researcher

Winner of Kabengele Munanga awarded in 2009 and I PSINEP 2010, is a Whore Kognitivo with experience in cultural management and business management. With a route already considerable as a thinker of African causes focused on the use of indigenous knowledge and know of Angolan and African peoples.

As a researcher works in an interdisciplinary way, with research oriented: Angola, Africa, African Subjectivity and Identity, Inter-Ethnic Relations and Inter-Racial, Portuguese Colonialism, Inequality and ethnic-racial discriminations in Angola, and knowledge african Africans.

With the experience obtained and exchanges in Brazil, and based on the philosophy of the Garifuna community, has worked to implement socio-cultural projects in Angola, focused on access, empowerment of people, and knowledge generation itself, with the aim of strengthening local knowledge and thus strengthen the socio-cultural entrepreneurship.

Born in Angola, is 31 years old, graduated in social sciences with an emphasis on cultural policy and management of cultural production and marketing, is master in social anthropology.


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