José lectures in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. José previously lectured in the School of Education, Theology Department, European Research Institute and in the Portuguese Studies Department at Birmingham University. He was appointed to a lectureship in Ethnicity in Sociology in 2007.

Undergraduate modules:

• Postcolonial Theory, Representation and Identity (third year)
• Ethnicity and Migration (third year)
• Dissertations supervision

• PhD, MPhil and MA dissertation supervision

José can offer supervision in the areas of: ethnicity and migration; ethnicity and religion; religion and society; religion and nationalism; ethnicity and identity; post-colonialism and social theories; slavery in the early modern world; Europe and African relations.

José’s research interests embrace a number of inter-related areas, linked by the overarching themes of:

• ‘Europe in Africa’ and ‘Africa in Europe’
• Race and ethnicity in modern postcolonial society
• Migration and religion
• Postcolonial theories and representation
• Slavery and labour
• The relations between postcolonial theory and modern social thought

Current Projects

José is investigating the recent experience of labour migrants from Portuguese-speaking Africa - Angola, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau - in three cities (Birmingham, England; Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain). José is also writing a book on Beyond Wilberforce’s Experiment in Abolitionism: Unfree Labour and the Market (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). In this book, he examines different forms of political resistance to slavery against the background of Britain’s experimental abolition of slavery on the Island of Bulama; the focus is on various themes, especially: the relationship between trade and ideology in the modernity project; land alienation and British settlers in Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau, West Africa; the relationship between yellow fever, quarantine law and class debate in Grenada – Caribbean.

He is also working on a documentary about his research on “Beyond Wilberforce’s Experiment in Abolitionism, Unfree Labour and the Market” for the BBC.

José is currently a referee for European Framework 7 research grants - FP7- (Seventh Framework Programme: the Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development).

José is also an academic advisor for Amilcar Cabral Institute – Think Tank, which runs the Secretariat for the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guinea-Bissau.

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Europe in Africa and Africa in Europe: Rethinking Postcolonial Space, Cultural Encounters and Hybridity”, European Journal of Social Theory, 2013, forthcoming (in press).

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Representation, National Consciousness and Culture of Resistance in Guinea-Bissau: Towards a Model of Postcolonial Interrogation”, Hispanic Research Journal, 2013, forthcoming (in press).

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Political Challenges of the African Voice: Autonomy, Commerce and Resistance in Pre-Colonial Western Africa”, in Toby Green, (ed.), Brokers of Change: Atlantic Commerce and Culture in Pre-Colonial Western Africa, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 71-90.

 Lingna Nafafé, J. “West African Perspectives on Ancient Egypt: African Renaissance”, in Karen Exell (ed.), Egypt in its African Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 80-91.

 Lingna Nafafé, J. Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation, Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2007.

Lingna Nafafé, J. ‘Lançados, Culture and Identity: Prelude to Creole Societies on the Rivers of Guinea and Cape Verde’. Pp 65-91, in Havik, Philip J. & Malyn Newitt (eds.) Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, Bristol, University of Bristol, 2007, pp. 65-91.

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Eschatology and Social Justice: General Thoughts and Illustrations from West Africa” in J. Eber (Ed.) Hope Does Not Disappoint: Studies in Eschatology, Essays from Different Contexts, Wheaton, Illinois: World Evangelical Fellowship, 2001, pp. 217-256.

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Mission and Political Power: Subversive Power Relations in Luso-West Africa (Guinea-Bissau) 1886 – 1914”, in A. Seldtkeller (edt.), Series, Missionsgeschichtliches Archiv. Studien der Berliner Gesellschaft für Missionsgeschichte,   volume 10, Franz Steiner Verlag:   Berlin,  2005, pp.229–241.

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Guinea Bissau: Language Situation”, in K. Brown, (edt.), Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, second edition, London, UK, 2005, pp. 195 – 200.

Lingna Nafafé, J. “Lourenço Mendonça da Silva” in J. Persch, (Ed.) Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. vierte Auflage, Tübingen:  J. C. B. Mohr Siebeck, (88), 2002, pp. 259 – 260.