Cristina Sá VALENTIM

Cristina Sá VALENTIM is a social-cultural anthropologist (BA and MA, University of Coimbra) and PhD in ‘Post-Colonialisms and Global Citizenship’ at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. She has carried out research in Anthropology, Sociology and Postcolonial Studies. In her PhD she analyzed the cultural, political and identity processes of Cokwe songs from colonial Lunda, Angola, recorded in the 1950s by Diamang (formerly Companhia de Diamantes de Angola) in northeastern Angola. She carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Portugal and Angola, combining research in colonial sound-documentary archives and in oral history. In 2022 she published the book Sons do Império, Vozes do Cipale. Canções cokwe e Memórias do Trabalho Forçado nas Lundas, Angola, [Sounds of Empire, Voices of Cipale. Cokwe songs and Memories of Forced Labour in the Lundas region, Angola], as the result of her PhD thesis winning the Agostinho Neto International Historical Research Prize (2019-2020 edition). Currently, she is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon within the scope of the FCT Stimulus to Individual Scientific Employment Contest (CEEC), continuing her research into African songs recorded in Angola during late Portuguese colonialism. More information: https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/pessoa/cristina-sa-valentim