Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness:

Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian, social and political organizer. She has B.A. in Modern and Contemporary History, Politics and International Affairs from ISCTE -University Institute of Lisbon, and a M.A. in African History from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She finished her Ph.D in History of education at Humboldt University of Berlin. She is also the editor of the booklets Cadernos Consciência e Resistência Negra (2007-2011) and author of the book Na Pó di Spéra. Percursos nos Bairros da Estrada Militar, Santa Filomena e Encosta Nascente (2014). Along with filmmaker Filipa César, Sónia Vaz Borges co-authored the short film Navigating the Pilot School (2016). Sónia Vaz Borges is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics (CPCP) at the Graduate Center City University of New York and is working on her new research project focused on Errant Archives.

• The PAIGC’s freedom fighter. The becoming process of a conscious militant (1940’s-1972); Building and organizing underground educational structures in Guinea Bissau (1960-1972); Militant Education. The ideas and its practices during PAIGC liberation struggle (1964-1974); The conception of an educational structure after the liberation struggle. The Bissau meeting in 1978 and the perspectives for a pan-African education. Liberation struggle(s) and the PAIGC militant education ‘for revolution’