Professor of Storia e Istituzioni dei Paesi Afro Asiatici
(History and Institutions of Afroasian States), Faculty of
Political Science, University of Bologna Italy
Member Dipartimento di Politica istituzioni e Storia
2001-2007 Dean Sviluppo e Cooperazione Internazionale,
degree course on development co-operation organised by the Faculty
of Political Science, The Law Faculty and the Faculty of
Statistics
Degrees: University of Bologna, 1962
Johns Hopkins, Washington D.C., M.A. in International Relations
(African studies),
1964.
Lecturer of African History and Contemporary politics
,development studies since 1969 at the Faculty of Political
Science, University of Bologna
Assistant professor of Political Science since 1972
Associate professor of African Studies at the Faculty of
Political Science, University of Bologna since 1974
Chair (Professore ordinario), of Afroasian studies since
1986
1976-1978 Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science
of the University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
1980-1983 Professor of African Studies at the Centro de Estudos
Africanos , Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Professor of African Politics, Johns Hopkins Bologna Center
(1982-1989)
Professor of Economic History and African Economic History,
Faculty of Economics, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo,
Mozambique 1998 and 1999
Field Research in Nigeria (political parties and elections,
1974); Guinea Bissau (Unesco, women and development 1987); Senegal
(the regional dimension of politics, 1972); Tanzania (ujamaa
villagisation, local politics, regionalization in the East African
Community); Mozambique (colonial history; agricultural
development; the regional dimension of apartheid); Zimbabwe (the
political system and elections); Namibia (the status of Namibia and
the electoral system); South Africa (apartheid; political violence;
the SADC)
Research project in Mozambique: the informal economy and the
informalisation of governance.
Main interests and areas of research:
African political systems; history and politics of agriculture
in Tanzania; politics of development with special reference to
resource management in Mozambique; field research and collection of
oral history; elections; regionalization; development education,
security.
Main publications:
Africa , Tradizione e modernità, Clueb, Bologna, 1972
Elite e regimi politici in Africa occidentale, Il Mulino,
Bologna 1974
Africa come storia, Angeli, Milano 1980
Sud Africa : i conflitti dell'apartheid, Editori
Riuniti, Roma
Il Leone e il Cacciatore, Storia dell'Africa sub sahariana
dal 1800, Nuova Italia Scientifica, Roma 1995, new editino 2008
(translated in Portuguese O leao e o Caçador. Uma historia da
Africa sub-saariana, Arquivo Historico de Moçambique, Estudos
14, Maputo Mozambique, 1999; to be traslated in Spanish and
Brasilian Portuguese )
Some recent publications:
Lo stato in Africa sub-sahariana, in Scienza e Politica,
n.1, 2006
Transizione e legittimità delle democrazie elettorali: il
caso del Mozambico, in A.M. Gentili, M.Zamponi ( a cura di)
Stato, Democrazia e legittimità. Le transizioni politiche in
Africa, America Latina, Balcani, Medio Oriente, Carocci, Roma
2005
Democracy and Citizenship in Mozambique, in A. Triulzi,
M.C. Ercolessi ( a cura di), State, Power and New Actors in
Postcolonial Africa, Fondazione Feltrinelli 2004
Ethnicity and citizenship in Africa in Chabal,
Engels, Gentili ( a cura di), Is violence inevitabile in Africa?
Theories of Conflict and Approaches to Conflict Prevention,
AEGIS, Brill 2005
Sovranità e democrazia: dove va il Congo?, in Afriche e
Orienti, vol.1-2 2004
Institution building e Governance, in V.Ianni ( a cura
di), Verso una nuova visione dell'aiuto, Anci, DGCS-MAE,
Roma 2004
Pour la Paix en Afrique, in Alex Smolar, A.M. LeGloannek
(a cura di), Etudes en Honneur de Pierre Hassner, Presses
Universitaires de France, Parigi 2003
Sessualità, maternità e violenza del potere nell'Africa
coloniale sub-sahariana, in N.M. Filippini, T.Plebani, A.
Scattino ( a cura di), Donne e uomini dal mondo antico all'età
contemporanea, Viella, Roma 2002
Lo stato-nazione in Africa: sudditi o cittadini?, in Il
Mulino, vol. 400, 2002
Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna ( section
social studies); Resident Member of the the Alma Mater
University of Bologna Institute of Advanced Studies;
Chairman of the Amilcar Cabral Center, Bologna (Library,
documentation and research activities on Asia, Africa, Latin
America); Scientific Board of the Review Afriche e Orienti
(Bologna); Member of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna (
section social studies)
Present research activities: The crisis of the Nation state in
Africa; Democracy and citizenship; Conflicts and conflict
resolution in Africa with special reference to Southern Africa the
Great Lakes and Congo/Zaire.
I am director of research of a multi-campus project on Poverty
and citizenship in Southern Africa.
My area specialist interest is Southern Africa and particularly
Mozambique
Languages: Italian; English, French, Portuguese.
