2018 - 2019 |Professor João Paulo Borges Coelho

João Paulo Borges Coelho is a Mozambican historian and fiction writer. With a PhD in Social & Economic History (University of Bradford UK, 1993), he is a Professor at University of Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo. His areas of interest include philosophy and theory of history, memory, contemporary history of Mozambique and Southern Africa. He has published extensively on topics related with conflict in Southern Africa as well as maritime security in the Indian Ocean.

He has published novels, short stories and novellas, in Mozambique, Portugal, Italy, Brazil and Colombia. In Mozambique, he was awarded the national prize of literature in 2004 and the BCI prize in 2011 and 2018, and the Leya Prize in Portugal in 2009. In 2012 he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.