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Mônica LIMA E SOUZA is Professor of African History at the Postgraduate Program in History and Social History and the Postgraduate Program in History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, coordinator of the African Studies Laboratory Researching and teaching the history of Africa, the African diaspora and Africans in Brazil, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses since 1992. She has carried out research in archives and documentation centers in Africa, Europe and Brazil. She has given lectures and published articles in Brazil and abroad on the history of Africa.