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- Democracy adrift and the trajectories of the political parties in São Tomé and PríncipePublication . Nascimento, AugustoSince 1990, within the framework of the representative democracy then endorsed in São Tomé and Príncipe, there has been open political competition between political parties. Representative democracy and parties are not realities averse to the prevailing cultural patterns on the islands. However, this does not mean that parties have a role consistent with the idealization, common among São Toméans, about what they should represent and do in a representative democracy. For example, the governance programs or even the number of militants are not always known. Nor do party programs, when made explicit, clearly distinguish the various parties. Despite the openness to the creation of new parties, mainly presidential initiatives, the party landscape has been characterized by opposition between the two largest parties, the Movement for the Liberation of São Tomé and Príncipe, the historic independence party, and Independent Democratic Action , which in recent years has asserted itself as the dominant party. In this text, in addition to the summary characterization of the functioning and performance of the parties – sometimes, one-man parties –, an attempt is also made to characterize the free and open political competition in which the parties have moved from 1990 to the present day. Factors undermining democracy are highlighted, for example, the growing political and social entropy, discouragement and the feeling of loss of determination of individual and collective futures, and even temptations of authoritarian drifts. Strictly speaking, perhaps more than the erosion of democracy, we are witnessing the decantation of disbelief in the country, which contaminates all political action. Some politicians point out the need for changes in the parties, even for them to have a fruitful action, if not to achieve development, at least to contain impoverishment and greater social fissures. However, the hypothesis that parties will continue to replicate the practices and vices that lead to the gap between parties and society is more plausible, not to say accurate. Incidentally, the recent political history of the island highlights a set of purposes and actions, guided by acrimony and violence, averse to a minimum cohesion, which is why it is difficult to believe in overcoming the obstacles set for the pacification of political and social competition.
- Em torno das Práticas Desportivas em ÁfricaPublication . Domingos, Nuno; Nascimento, Augusto
- Esporte e lazer na África: novos olharesPublication . Nascimento, Augusto; Bittencourt, Marcelo; Domingos, Nuno; Melo, Victor Andrade deA partir de abordagens temáticas, teóricas e metodológicas variadas, os trabalhos presentes em Esporte e lazer na África: novos olhares confirmam o aspecto multifacetado do esporte e a permeabilidade de seu estudo. Os textos discutem, através de uma perspectiva esportiva, temas como colonialismo, construção de identidade, diplomacia cultural e imprensa, ao decorrer da história do continente africano.
- Exile and contract: journeys of the mozambicans to S. Tomé and Príncipe (1940 to 1960)Publication . Nascimento, AugustoExile and Contract: Journeys of the Mozambicans to S. Tomé and Príncipe (1940 to 1960), based mainly on documentation from the Historical Archive of Maputo, deals with the migration of Mozambicans to São Tomé and Príncipe, especially between 1947 and 1961. The more or less coercive nature of this migration varied due to the correlation of forces between the political instances, in Portugal and Mozambique, and the plantation owners, who demanded the use of the hired labour force to maintain labour relations on the plantations. On a chronological level, a change occurred in the mid-1950s. Until then, among the migrants there were some individuals in no way labelled as slaves or undesirables, anyway there were also other individuals which were labelled as such to fill the labour contingent. In the second half of the 1950’s, when the banishment of undesirables almost ended, there was a tendency towards a greater social and cultural homogeneity of migrants, most of whom were recruited in Northern Mozambique, certainly less as a result of individual will than of agreements on the destiny of the subjects. Among the social implications of migration, it should be highlighted the re-establishment of family ties, which induced the migration of Cape Verdeans women, with their Mozambicans roça's partners, to Mozambique. The political consequences of migration from Mozambique to the islands were less obvious: as centripetal universes, the roças made it difficult to affirm the conscience of the servants, whose political aversion to the colonists, when it existed, was often based on their religious conscience. It is not wrong to say that the individuals, recruited or hired, in the south and north of the colony, returned from São Tomé and Príncipe with an increased feeling of being Mozambicans.