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Luís Domingos Francisco e Kandjimbo de Kandingi, known as Luís Kandjimbo, is an angolan writer, philosopher and literary critic. Born in Benguela, Angola, (3 January 1960), 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.

Education
He did primary and secondary studies in the city of Benguela, having completed pre-university education in the city of Lubango. In 1980, at the former Lubango Faculty of Arts, now the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences (ISCED), he attended the Modern Literature course. He completed his studies in Law and Modern Languages and Literatures, respectively, at Agostinho Neto University in Angola and Open University in Portugal. He hold a post-graduate degree in Portuguese Studies, a Master in General Philosophy and a PhD in Literary Studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Honors

 * Honor's roll of the new Doctors of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, in the year of defense of his PhD thesis.
 * Honorable Mention of “Sonangol Prize for Literature”.
 * Angolan Ambassador's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cultural Diplomacy in Portugal.

Institutional affiliation
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, a member of the UNESCO International Scientific Committee for the writing 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.

Teaching
He has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Agostinho Neto University, as well of the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Methodist University and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Human Development at the Gregório Semedo University in Luanda.He is currently an Associate Professor at the Metropolitan Higher Polytechnic Institute of Angola and at the post-graduate courses of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Agostinho Neto University.

Research interests
He develops his research in African Studies, particuraly within the following disciplinary fields: African Cultures, African Philosophy, African History, African Literatures, African Women´s Studies, Bantu Linguistics and Global Studies.

Career
He held positions in the civil service and in diplomacy, of which the following stand out: Director for Cultural Action and Portuguese Language in the Executive Secretariat of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, having been responsible for coordinating multilateral cooperation in the fields of Culture, Science, Technology, Education and Higher Education (2011-2015). He has been Vice-Chairman of the Angolan Academy of Letters (2016-2020), Consultant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Angola (2010-2011), Deputy Minister of Culture of the Government of Angola (2008-2010), Cultural Adviser to the Embassy of the Republic of Angola in Portugal (2002-2008). He is currently Director-General of the Metropolitan Higher Polytechnic Institute of Angola.

Publications(translation from Portuguese language)

 * 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.
 * State and Customary Law.The Philosophical Problems of Legal Pluralism and Sources of Law, Master's Dissertation, 2014, RCAAP, Id. http: // hdl.handle.net/10362/13724.
 * The Disciplinary Statute of Angolan Literature.For a Disciplinary Epistemology of African Literary Studies, Doctoral Thesis, 2015, RCAAP, Id. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17172
 * 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.
 * African Philosophems. Essay on the Effectiveness of the Right to Philosophy (Essay), forthcoming, Mayamba Editora, 2019.

Some Articles (published in internationally refereed and peerreviewed journals)
* “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.