Prof. Fabio Beiqueiro Figueiredo(Research Fellow at Moi ACC_2024)

Bio

Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo is a professor of African History at UNILAB, a federal Brazilian university created to foster Africa-Brazil academic exchanges. He is also associated with the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at Bahia Federal University, where he received his training in History (BA, 2005) and African Studies (PhD, 2012). He is one of the editors of Afro-Asia, the older and most influential Brazilian academic journal specialized on African Studies and race relations. He is actively engaged in the ongoing institutionalization of African Studies in Brazil, both in the African History Workgroup of the Brazilian National History Association (GT-África/ANPUH), and in the Brazilian African Studies Association (ABEÁfrica). His research focuses on the relation of politics, intellectual and cultural production, and social identity in Angola, both during the nationalist struggle and after independence. In particular, he is interested in observing how formulations about nationhood, race, ethnicity, urban-rural spectrum, class, and gender – in nationalist propaganda, public education, government cultural policy, the press, scholarship, music, cinema, literature,  comics, and so on – influence and are influenced by the political struggle to define the future of the nation in the making.

Dr. Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko(Research Fellow at Moi ACC_2024)

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AKIN-OTIKO, Akinmayowa is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, (IADS) University of Lagos and has special interest in the Religions, Cultures and Traditional Medicine of the Africans. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy, from the University of Ibadan, in 1996 and 2006 respectively; and in 2013, he defended his Ph.D. in African Religion and Belief System, from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. Over the years he has engaged in researches and discusses in the area of African Traditional Medicine. He is a member of different academic Traditional Medicine Practitioners associations. He has written books, contributed chapters in books, as well as published in different journals. His current research interest includes Bioethical issues in African Traditional Medicine and this has worn him a Fellow of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (BA). His interest falls within the Knowledge and Morality Research Section of the ACC