Round table Anticolonial press, exiles and exiled

The International Congress The Press of Exile(s) took place on the 10th and 11th of October 2024, at the Centro de Documentação 25 de Abril of the Universidade de Coimbra, the first IGSCP-PE event in that city. The round table that closed the congress, dedicated to the theme Anticolonial press, exiles and exiled of the last decades of the Portuguese dictatorship, was one of the moments of the meeting that we considered important to highlight with its recording for wider public access. ​

Formed by former exiles from Portugal and its ex-colonies, their descendants and academics, the table had a re
Consisting of former exiles from Portugal and the former Portuguese colonies, their descendants and academics, the panel had a reflective and theorising intent, based on their lived experiences and/or studies. Its non-binding script included the following topics:

• The impact of the Portuguese dictatorship on the creation of anti-colonial and anti-fascist oppositions and resistances in exile. Networks and fractures arising from the priorities and levels of struggle of the various players.
• The personal experience of exile and the importance of the press as a means of circulating ideas and creating networks of solidarity with the host countries and between the various political families, against the dictatorship and colonialism.
• The role of the anti-colonial and anti-fascist struggle in the building of the various democracies and in the fulfilment of anti-fascist and anti-colonial programmes. Decolonisation and post-coloniality.
• The resulting archives, their validity and relevance as heritage and memory for a better future.

​The recording of the round table, provided by CD25A, is available on the YouTube channels of GIEIPC-IP and the 25 de Abril Documentation Centre.

Coordinating committee:

Adelaide Vieira Machado, CHAM, Centro de Humanidades, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
Cristina Clímaco, Laboratoire d'Études Romanes, Université de Paris 8
Pedro George, Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon, former exile in London
Sónia Ferreira, CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia
Table moderators:
Cristina Clímaco e Pedro George

Participants:

Álvaro Miranda (exiled in London)
Guiomar Ramos (born in São Paulo, where her father Vitor Ramos was in exile)
Henda Ducados (born in Rabat, where her parents Mário Pinto de Andrade and Sarah Maldoror were in exile)
Joaquim Saraiva (exiled in Aarhus and Copenhagen)
Luísa Tito de Morais (exiled in Paris, Prague and Algiers)
Óscar Monteiro (Frelimo representative in Algeria, Tanzania, France, Italy, etc)