João Lopes Filho
Bornc. 1943
Fajã de Cima, São Nicolau, Cape Verde
Occupationanthropologist, historian, university professor, novelist and investigator
Notable awards1st Rank of the Ordem do Vulcão (2004)
Sonangol Literary Award (2011)
Website
Official website

João Lopes Filho (born c. 1943) is a Cape Verdean anthropologist, historian, university professor, novelist and an investigator.

A specialist in the largest studies and works of appreciation of the Cape Verdean Creole, a Central-Western Atlantic African Creole, he was born in Santa Catarina in Santiago.

He is the main investigator in anthropology and ethnology in the country, he was one of the most awarded professors in the country, he had written about thirty works.

He is a teacher at the University of Cape Verde (Uni-CV), he heads the João Lopes Foundation on Arts and Literature and the Capeverdean Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Life and career

He was born to João Lopes in the village of Fajã de Cima (also as Fajã de São Nicolau)[1] on the island of São Nicolau which today forms a part of the municipality of Ribeira Brava. The last name Lopes Filho is considered a single surname meaning "son of a Lopes family member". His father was a journalist who was involved in a clairty movement of the island of São Vicente.[2]

During his teenage years, he went to Santarém to study agricultural engineering at Santarém Agricultural School (Escola Agrícola de Santarém), now the Santarém Polytechnical Institute. He later attended at and later graduated from the New University of Lisbon and took courses in anthropological and ethnological sciences as well as social and political sciences at the Technical University of Lisbon (now the University of Lisbon).[3] He was later taught in anthropology[4] with specialised courses in ethnology and aggregation in African Studies taken at UTL.[3]

After completing his studies, he went to become a professor at what was Cape Verde's higher institute of education that is now categorized as a college or a collegiate in Cape Verde in the 1980s, Escola de Formação de Professores e Educadores do Ensino Secundário (EFPES) which is now the Uni-CV's Institute of Higher Education (Instituto Superior de Educação, ISE), he took part in a development commission for Uni-CV. he later became a director of the Coordinate Commission and professor of masters in heritage, tourism and development of the university.[3]

He previously accepted an invitation to teach the doctorate in some post-graduate programs at the New University of Lisbon and the University of Évora.[5]

In 2004, he was awarded the 1st Rank of the Order of Vulcan (Ordem do Vulcão) by the President of Cape Verde, the highest civil award and honour in the country.[6]

In October 2011, he was awarded the Sonangol Literary Award, for the novel Percursos & Destinos, founded by the João Lopes Foundation for Arts and Literature, he raised about US$50,000, he gave the foundation to name of his father.[7][8]

In January 2014, he was named by the Capeverdean Minister of Education for heading the electoral process for its first rectoral elections for Uni-CV.[9]

Alongside with Jorge Sousa Brito, former rector of the Jean Piaget University of Cape Verde in 2015, he founded the Capeverdean Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Also in that year, he launched a book about António Carreira in June.[10]

Works

  • Ilha de S. Nicolau : Cabo Verde : formação da sociedade e mudança cultural, 2 vols, Secretaria-Geral, Ministerio da Educação, Lisbon, 1996, 533 + 515 pages ISBN 972-95047-1-7, ISBN 972-95047-2-5

References

  1. ↑ Monteiro, Mateus Domingos (December 2007). Apresentação de "In Memorium João Lopes" (in Portuguese). Website of João Lopes Filho. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  2. ↑ "João Lopes Filho lança hoje obra sobre António Carreira". Expresso das Ilhas (in Portuguese). 26 June 2015. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Curriculum vitæ" (in Portuguese). Website of João Lopes Filho. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  4. ↑ "Lopes Filho, João" (in Portuguese). University of Cape Verde. Archived from the original on 6 September 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "João Lopes Filho [University of Cape Verde]" (in Portuguese). Centro Interdisciplinar de História, Culturas e Sociedades (Inter-Disciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies) at the University of Évora. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Semedo, Larice Freire (12 June 2016). João Lopes Filho: docente, investigador, antropólogo, escritor… (in Portuguese). Sobre a Uni-CV.
  7. ↑ "Escritor João Lopes Filho cria Fundação para Artes e Literatura com o valor do Prémio Sonangol" (in Portuguese). RTC. 29 October 2011.
  8. ↑ "João Lopes Filho: Turismo e Cultura são o caminho para o desenvolvimento de São Nicolau" [João Lopes Filho: Tourism and Culture on the Road For the Development of São Nicolau]. Jornal de São Nicolau (in Portuguese). 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  9. ↑ "Filho de São Nicolau: João Lopes Filho preside a eleições na UNI-CV" (in Portuguese). A Semana and Jornal de São Nicolau. 24 January 2014. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
  10. ↑ "Constituição da Academia das Ciências e Humanidades de Cabo Verde (ACH-CV)" (in Portuguese). Plataforma 9 (Platform 9). Retrieved 5 June 2017.
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