The Research Centre for Luso-Asian Studies (CIELA) in collaboration with the Department of History of FAH  is pleased to invite all those interested to the Guest Lecture Before the Chocolate City – Africans in Southeast and East Asia (1800-1960).  The invited speaker is Dr. Clifford Joseph Pereira (Visiting Research Associate at the African Studies Department, University of Hong Kong). The talk will be followed by a Q & A session moderated by Prof. Joshua Ehrlich (Department of History).

ABSTRACT

Before the Chocolate City – Africans in Southeast and East Asia (1800-1960)

 Dr. Clifford Joseph Pereira

(University of Hong Kong)

Awareness of the African presence in China in the late twentieth and especially the first two decades of the twenty-first century is well documented by social-science researchers and historians. However, the presence of Africans in Southeast Asia and East Asia is still being uncovered and the role of Africans during the period of European colonial hegemony in Asia has been largely forgotten. This presentation underlies the important role that Africans have played in the freedom of China including the Macau SAR, as well as Myanmar and Indonesia in the Second World War and much more.

Speaker’s CV: https://ciela.fah.um.edu.mo/category/activities/

Registration (recommended): https://umac.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2lR28Ebfkjrp50G

ZOOM Link: https://umac.zoom.us/j/8312593315