2023-12-20 18:58:04
Professors Rutte Andrade and Ana Carolina Costa, from the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia (Unilab), received, respectively, the Pan-African Humanitarian Award for Excellence in Research and Social Impact and the Kwanzaa Thesis Award 2023.
The awards focus on black university professors playing a leading role in science and culture at Unilab and in Brazil.
Professor Rutte Andrade: Photo: personal collection.
Cape Verdean Rutte Andrade, based at the Malês Campus, in São Francisco do Conde/BA, won the Pan-African Humanitarian Award for Excellence in Research and Social Impact, at the 8th Edition of the “Pan-African Humanitarian – Summit” Gala & Awards 2023”, which took place this year in Senegal, from November 24th to 26th. The award was presented alongside other political and cultural entities from different African countries and diasporas that have contributed to the transformation process.
The teacher highlighted the joy with which she receives the honor and recognition for her work, which combines struggles and resistance against structural racism and patriarchy. “My gratitude to our ancestry for the values and principles by which we guide ourselves at this crossroads. To the ‘African’ women with whom we share the same origin, conditions and same goals, my reverence and gratitude,” she said.
Professor Ana Carolina Costa. Photo: personal collection.
Ana Carolina Costa received the Kwanzaa Thesis Prize 2023, an action promoted by the research group Africas: Society, politics and culture (UERJ-PUC-Rio) and the publishing label Edições Áfricas, in partnership with the publisher Autoografia / Rio de Janeiro (RJ), rewarding black Brazilian researchers who have been committed to scientific production and combating different forms of epistemic racism in Brazil. The award-winning thesis is entitled “Collective-Subject, a frontier for capitalism: intertwining cosmology, persecution and agrarian policy in Benin”, resulting from her doctorate in the Social Anthropology Program at the University of Brasília (UnB).
Meet Rutte Andrade and Ana Carolina Costa
Rutte Tavares Cardoso Andrade is Cape Verdean, writer and professor at the Institute of Humanities and Letters (IHL/Unilab), Campus dos Malês, teaching on the Degree in Pedagogy and Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Humanities courses. She also teaches in the Postgraduate/Master’s Courses in Pedagogy and Undergraduate Courses in Educational Sciences, at the University of Santiago, in Cape Verde. She has a PhD in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences. She coordinates the Kabaz Garandi Cultural Group: traditional music and dances from Guinea-Bissau in Recôncavo da Bahia and the “Africana” Studies Center (CEA-Unilab). She is a member of the Council for the Development of Research in Social Sciences in Africa (Codersia), Afrocentricity International and the Brazilian Association of Black Researchers, ABPN.
Ana Carolina de Oliveira Costa has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília with a sandwich doctorate from the Université d’Abomey-Calavi (2018-2019), both as a Capes scholarship holder. She has research on political history, production and circulation of knowledge from the African continent; capitalism and racial Marxism; witchcraft, cult of Vodun and the Dead in Benin. Master in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília, graduated in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, with research on oralities, mythical narratives and the transmission of knowledge within Candomblé houses in Belo Horizonte. She is a professor at the Unilab Humanities Institute. She is interested in the themes of African studies, anthropological theories, circulation and production of knowledge on/from the African continent, anthropology of religion and economic and political anthropology. She participated in the École Doctorale des Ateliers de la Pensée de Dakar in 2019, coordinated by Achille Mbembe and Felwine Sarr. Researcher associated with the Chaire Islam contemporain en Afrique de l’Ouest (Chaire ICAO), at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
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