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Luís Kandjimbo (born 3 January 1960), is an angolan writer, literary critic and Literature Professor. Kandjimbo was born in Benguela, Angola. He belongs to the angolan literary generation of 80´s, so called Generation of Uncertanties. He is one of the most important african essayists of his generation. He is the author of many articles and books in Portuguese and other languages. He graduated with a B.A in Modern Languages and Literatures from Open University in Portugal. He has a M.Phil in General Philosophy and a Ph.D in Literary Studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His major Fields of Research and Teaching are African Literatures, African Philosophy, Ethics and Argumentation. He is also interested in African Cultures, African History, African Women´s Studies and Global Studies. From 2009 until 2015, Kandjimbo taught at the Agostinho Neto University, as a faculty member in the Literature and Portuguese department at School of Arts as well as at the post-graduate courses at School of Social Sciences. Has also held positions at the Methodist University, Gregório Semedo University in Luanda. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Metropolitan Higher Polytechnic Institute of Angola and of the of the Agostinho Neto University. He is member of the Union of Angolan Writers, Association for the Study of African Literatures of Paris, International Association of African Literary and Cultural Studies of Brazil. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Literary and Tradition Studies at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the drafting of volumes IX, X and XI of the General History of Africa. He is Chairman of the Board of the General Assembly of the Union of Angolan Writers, founding member and the Angolan Academy of Letters. One of his book of poetry earned Honorable Mention of “Sonangol Prize for Literature” (1997). His name is included in Honor's roll of the new Doctors of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) due to the outstanding merit of his doctoral thesis.

Selected bibliography
•	Vigil's Trouble (Essay and Criticism), Luanda, UEA, 1988.

•	Kalitangi Apology (Essay and Criticism), Luanda, INALD, 1997.

•	The Road to Dryness (Poetry) (Honorable Mention “Sonangol Award”), 1997.

•	The Night Owl and Other Stories of a Benguelense (Tales) Luanda, Nzila, 2000.

•	From Wandering to Traces (Poetry), Luanda, INIC, 2000.

•	Ideograms of Ngandji. Angolan Reading and Paraphrasing Exercises, 1st edition, Lisbon, Novo Imbondeiro, 2003.

•	Essay for Gaze Reversal. From Angolan Literature to Portuguese Literature, Luanda, Mayamba Publisher, 2011.

•	Ideograms of Ngandji. Reading and Paraphrasing. Essay, 2nd edition, Triangularte Editora, Luanda, 2013.

•	Hazards & The Urban Music-Lover (Stories), Luanda, Acácias, 2018. •	Alumbu. The Endogenous Canon in the Angolan Literary Field. For a Cultural Hermeneutics, Mayamba Editora, 2019.

Articles

•	 “Angolan Literature in Presence of an Incipient Canon of Literatures Written in Portuguese,” Research in African Literatures, volume 38, number 1, spring 2007, pp.9-34 https://www.jstor.org/stable/4618349. •	 “For a Brief History of Angolan Narrative Fiction in the Last Fifty Years” in Maria Postigo Aldeamil (coord.), The Narrative in the Portuguese Language of the Last Fifty Years, Journal of Romance Philology of the Complutense University of Madrid, Anejo II, 2001, pp.161-184. ISSN: 0212-999X, ISBN: 54-95215-18-7.

•	“Agostinho Neto (1940-1960). L'itinéraire de l'identité Individuelle d´un Poète de la Génération Littéraire, 1940”, in Présence Africaine, 2011/2 (n ° 184), pp. 771725. 101-120. ISBN: 9782708708273. DOI: 10.3917 / prey.184.0101.

•	“The Disciplinarization of Angolan Literature. History, Canons, Legitimizing Discourses and Disciplinary Status”, in Journal of Literary Studies, Volume 5 (2015) (University of Coimbra) pp. 49-103.

•	“The Incompleteness of the Process of Disciplinarization of African Literatures”, Tribute to Professor Russell Hamilton, in Journal of Lusophone Studies 1.2 (Autumn 2016), American Portuguese Studies Association (APSA). DOI: http: //dx.doi. org / 10.21471 / jls.v1i2.121.