Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo is Professor of Contemporary African History in the Department of History and also works in the Graduate Programs in History and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. He is a trained historian with a PhD in African Studies from UFBA (2012). He was a board member of the Brazilian Association of African Studies (2019-2022) and is one of the national coordinators of the History of Africa Workgroup in the Brazilian History Association (2021-2025). He was one of the chief editors of the journal Afro-Ásia from 2018 to 2023. Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo has been a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (2021) and Moi University, Kenya (2024). He has conducted archival research in Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Kenya, and the United States about African nationalism, as well as its relationship with knowledge production, intellectuals, and artistic expressions in nation-building, especially with regard to collective categories of social identification and political mobilization in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, youth, and religious affiliation.
Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo
Fábio Baqueiro Figueiredo is Professor of Contemporary African History at Federal University of Bahia, Brazil.
His main research interests are African nationalism, nation-building, cultural production, social identities, and the Third World.