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Eugénio Costa Almeida
   

EUGÉNIO LUÍS DA COSTA ALMEIDA, with Degree and Master in International Relations, is waiting for the defense of the thesis for his PhD in Social Sciences, under the mentoring of Professor José Adelino Maltez, titled "The African Union and emergency of the States-Director in the African Continent" (A União Africana e a emergência de Estados-Directores no Continente Africano: O Caso de Angola).

I completed a degree in 1991 at the University Lusíada, and a Masters in February 2001, with the highest score, the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL), with the thesis "Fundamentalism and Political-Religious Tolerance in Africa (Repercussions in the External Relations of the African Continent)" «(Fundamentalismo e Tolerância Político-Religiosa em África (Repercussões nas Relações Externas do Continente Africano)». Professor António de Sousa Lara was the guiding pedagogical I accompany the preparation of this thesis.

   Although I was born in the beautiful living room of Angola, Lobito, what happened in 1956, lived one of the best periods of his life here, where he completed his secondary education and complementary. I am married with two daughters.

 

   Professionally I was Banking technician and a technical trainer; during my degree, I worked in Lisbon, twice, UNITA’s magazine “Terra Angolana, both in its own name or under the pseudonym Lobitino Almeida N'gola;

During this period I participated in various Seminaries and Congresses, most recently in different Conferences, the last three in May 2009, in Angola (Luanda, Cabinda and Lobito), sponsored by the University Lusíada of Angola.

 

    Collaborate, periodically in the regional weekly FrenteOeste and, more recently, with Correio da Semana, of Sao Tome & Principe, with Opinion Column, and in the Jornal de Notícias, besides making to publish articles of Opinion in sites as Africamente, AngoNotícias, Eusou.com or Notícias Lusófonas (since January of 2007, with a Opinion Column) and, recently, with O Observador (Mozambique) and Zwela Angola (Angola).

Also, I collaborated, through Opinion's articles with the Jornal Lusófono and a Portuguese African weekly Semanário África and the magazines África-Hoje and Africa-Today or Angolan magazines Valor Acrescentado and Eventos.

 

    And because of thoughts all we are full, has one blog (Pululu) where says everything what it goes to it in him soul. And, now, I have another blog, this is cultural (Malambas), where poets and writers of stories have a place at disposal and where I also publish some poems under the name Lobitino Almeida N'gola.

 

    Close to the Christmas of 2003, its first literary composition was published, through the Autonomia27, a publishing company, under the heading "Islamic Fundamentalism: the Ideology and the State" (Fundamentalismo Islâmico: A Ideologia e o Estado). At this moment it has another literary assay in preparation to be published in briefing.

 

    In ends of January of 2005, he published his second book, by the same publisher, "Africa: Cultural, Religious, and Political Projects" (África: Projectos Políticos, Religiosos e Culturais), that had the it’s one launching in the past day 11 of December 2004, in Casa de Angola.

 

    In 2009, was included in the Poetic Anthology, published recently under the title "II Antologia de Poetas Lusófonos", with the publication of 5 poems of my own, though under my pseudonym, and published by Folheto Edições. Also, in 2009, one of my poems «Saudades de Angola» (Saudades of Angola) was included in the book "Angola, 60-70 Saudade", a bilingual edition English-Portuguese, the publisher iPlay Som e Imagem Lda.

 

   I am affiliated, and/or founding member of AAECL - Association of Former Students of Escola Comercial de Luanda; of ACSEL - Association of Social Scientists of the Portuguese language Space; of Liáfrica - League of Africans and Friends of Africa (I was advisor of the Liáfrica’s Board to the Board and the Commission did Congressional-Executive Boards of the Portuguese language Technician), and the ANPRI - National Association of Professional Relations;

More recently, I am an associate membership of the Geographical Society of Lisbon, Portugal; and since 2008 I, too, and also a member of the Centre for African Studies (CEA)-ISCTE and, hence, became an associate member of the individual African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE).

 

      In Associative sector, since January of 2006, I’ m an actual vowel of the Directorate of Casa de Angola, in Lisbon, as head of the Department of Culture and the Media, which already had the privilege of conducting some cultural events and information activities;

In January of 2007, I was elect President of the General Assembly of a cooperative housing «Habitanova 2000», and was re-elected in 2009 for the period 2010-2012.