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Doutorado com distinção em História Moderna e Contemporânea no ISCTE-IUL . Bolsa FCT n. 2020.05713.BD. Estudante convidado na Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo em 2022. Invesitigador convidado no Arpac Moçambique em 2022. Título tese: "Era uma vez Mundugaz: narrativas do Ngungunhane em Portugal e Moçambique (1890-2024)". Formação académica:  - Master em "Management of development" em 2014 pelo International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization.   - Laurea Magistrale em "Sociologia" em 2009 pela Università degli Studi di Torino - Bachelor em "Comunicazione interculturale" pela Università degli Studi di Torino em 2006. Experiência profissional:   Coordenador de Projeto noa Accenture-Portugal por cinco anos (2015-2020) e trabalhei por 5 anos (2010-2015) no campo da intervenção social e cultural, tendo cooperado em qualidade gestor de projetos em ONGs na Itália, Nepal, Senegal, Portugal e em Moçambique.  
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Andrea Vacha

Citation names

  • Vacha, Andrea

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BF15-AEEB-7486
ORCID iD
0000-0002-7942-4927
Google Scholar ID
gxxkoZwAAAAJ
Researcher Id
10.54499

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 925723187 (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
Occitano (after 1500); Provencal Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/09/15 - 2024/12/13
Ongoing
 História moderna e contemporânea (Doutoramento)
Major in Sociedade e Economia, Política e Cidadania
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
"Era uma vez Mundugaz. Narrativas da figura do rei Ngungunhane em Moçambique e em Portugal (1890-2022)." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09/01 - 2014/11/11
Concluded
 Management of Development (Pós-Graduação)
International Labour Organization, Italy
2013/11/25 - 2014/09/21
Concluded
 Management of development (Master)
Major in Human Development, Human Rights and Migration, Development, Inequality and Growth, Environment and Sustainability, Local Development and Participation, Governance and Democracy, Actors, Partnerships and Financing.
International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, Italy
"Accessibility to Educational system in developing countries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 102/110
2006/11/22 - 2009/07/17
Concluded
 Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
2006/12/01 - 2009/07/07
Concluded
 Sociologia (Laurea Magistrale)
Major in Conhecimento, compreensão e analise dos processos culturais e das problematicas sociais em três áreas: teórica, metodológica e aplicativa.
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
"Consumare l'identità, i luoghi del cibo peruviano a Torino" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2003/09/19 - 2006/10/25
Concluded
 Comunicazione interculturale (Bachelor)
Major in O curso inclui três conjuntos de créditos relacionados com disciplinas linguísticas, antropológicas e sociológicas.
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
"Le associazioni islamiche nel contesto migratorio: studio sulla comunità di Asti" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19/20
2003/09/20 - 2006/10/13
Concluded
 Comunicazione interculturale (Bacharelato)
Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Affiliation

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2015/07/11 - Current Coordenador de Projeto (Categorias e Funções Especificas) Accenture, Portugal, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/11/30 - 2015/06/11 ONG AIDGLOBAL, Portugal
2010/12/25 - 2012/09/06 ONG CESIE, Centro studi e iniziative europeo, Italy
2010/01/11 - 2010/10/06 ONG Campaign for change Nepal, Nepal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/01/01 - 2024/06/06 Era uma vez Mundugaz. Narrativas de Ngungunhane em Moçambique e Portugal (1890-2022)
2020.05713.BD
PhD Student Fellow
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Vacha, A.. "Imagined elsewhere through Gungunhana: Representations of the exiled king in Azores and Mozambique: Geopolitics and diaspora". In The Azores, the Atlantic and the global challenges, 179-199. Ponta Delgada, United States: Letras Lavadas, 2024.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Vacha, Andrea. "Nguni: um gado, um povo. Persistências culturais na província de Gaza, Moçambique". Paper presented in O Gado no mundo lusófono- perspectivas históricas e antropológicas, séculos 19-21- Oficina Virtual., Lisboa, 2023.
Conference paper
  1. Vacha, Andrea. "Imagined elsewhere through Gungunhana. Representations of the exiled king in Azores and Mozambique.". Paper presented in L-PAZ Forum. The Azores, tha Atlantic and the Global Challenges., Vila do Porto, Sta Maria, 2023.
    Under revision
  2. Vacha, Andrea. "Gungunhanomania. O circo mediático da prisão e exílio do rei de Gaza em Portugal (1895-1908).". Paper presented in 2º Congresso Internacional em Lisboa do GIEIPC-IP. O Liberalismo e a Imprensa Colonial, Lisboa, 2022.
    Under revision
Journal article
  1. Manuel Vene. Corresponding author: Manuel Vene. "Memoriais como recursos didáticos em Moçambique: analise dos monumentos a Acivaanjila e Ngungunhane.". (2024):
    Accepted
  2. Vacha, A.; Vene, M.. "Memoriais como recursos didáticos para o ensino de história da resistência anti-colonial em Moçambique: Análise dos monumentos Acivaanjila e Ngungunhane". Capoeira – Revista de Humanidades e Letras 9 1 (2024): 386-416. https://revistas.unilab.edu.br/index.php/capoeira/article/view/1829.
    Published
  3. Vacha, A.. "Iconografia de Gungunhana: representações do rei negro em Portugal (1890-1940)". Práticas da História 12 (2021): 53-93. https://praticasdahistoria.pt/article/view/24950/18399.
    Published • 10.48487/pdh.2021.n12.24950
Newsletter article
  1. Vacha, Andrea. "Religione e immigrazione tra integrazione e esclusione", Una società che cambia, 2006, http://www1.interno.gov.it/mininterno/export/sites/default/it/assets/files/1/2007119121921.pdf.

Other

Other output
  1. The return of King Ngungunhane iconography (2020-21). 12º Congreso Ibérico de Estudios Africanos. 2025. Vacha, A.. https://redestudiosafricanos.org/el-congreso/.
  2. Revisiting Colonial Narratives in Portuguese Military Museums: the case of Gungunhana and Mouzinho de Albuquerque rooms. Decolonizing Museums and Resignifying Monuments. 2024. Vacha, A.. https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/311694.
  3. A restituição dos restos mortais de Ngungunhane na imprensa moçambicana e açoriana. X Colóquio Doutoral ESPP. 2024. Vacha, A..
  4. A campanha do Brado Africano para libertar Zixaxa (o último exilado).. GIEIPC-IP A Imprensa de Exílio(s). 2024. Vacha, A.. https://giepcip.wordpress.com/.
  5. “Nwamatibejana/ Roberto Zixaxa. The man who lived twice.”. LPAZ FORUM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONE ATLANTIC MANY PERSPECTIVES – VALUING DIVERSITY IN THE AGE OF COMPETITION. 2024. Vacha, A.. https://fb.watch/tQkwN4KxhK/.
  6. Os Chefes Mataaka e os Exploradores Europeus: Uma Abordagem Metabiográfica. Simpósio Mataaka I. 2024. Vacha, A.. https://www.facebook.com/p/ARPAC-Mo%C3%A7ambique-100069307805657/.
  7. Gungunhana: Ecos de um Imperador Imaginado. Gungunhana e seus companheiros na Ilha Terceira: importância e atualidade. 2024. Vacha, A..
  8. Nguni: um gado, um povo. Persistências culturais na província de Gaza, Moçambique.. O Gado no Mundo Lusófono: Perspectivas Históricas e Antropológicas, Seculos 19-21.. 2023. Vacha, A.. https://ciuhct.org/agenda/oficina-virtual-o-gado-no-mundo-lusofono-perspectivas-historicas-e-antropologicas-seculos-19-21.
  9. Nguni: um gado, um povo. Persistências culturais na província de Gaza, Moçambique. O Gado no mundo lusófono- perspectivas históricas e antropológicas, séculos 19-21- Oficina Virtual.. 2023. Vacha, A..
  10. Gungunhanomania. O circo mediático da prisão e exílio do rei de Gaza em Portugal (1895-1908). 2º Congresso Internacional em Lisboa do GIEIPC-IP. O Liberalismo e a Imprensa Colonial. 2022. Vacha, A.. https://liberalismoimprensacolonial.wordpress.com/.
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/10/14 - Current Narrativas e metabiografias: o caso de Ngungunhane (2022/10/14)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
2022/04/13 - Current Narrativas sobre Ngungunyane e a sua funcionalidade on discurso publico em Moçambique e em Portugal(1890-2020). (2022/04/13)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
2022/04/12 - Current Questões de narrativas. Percurso interpretativo das representações artísticas da figura de Ngungunhane. (2022/04/12)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
2023/03/30 - 2023/03/30 Cultura Portuguesa para alunos do Doutoramento de Português como língua estrangeira (2023/03/30)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2014/05/11 - 2015/01/08 Management on the field of ongoing projects with school’s libraries of Chibuto District (Moz.) for 9 months. Networking with local and international organizations, writing proposal for new projects, conducting focus groups with target beneficiaries in order to tailor effective solutions to ongoing social issues Proeject manager

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2017/09/06 - 2020/12/30 Subject matter expert: - Social network content analysis: monitoring racism, homophobia, bullysm and hate speech on social platforms/ media. -Networking with internal management, analysts and clients and team management: providing solutions in order to reduce the impact of those issues on social media users, raising awareness from a bottom up perspective on such issues in a specific country context, developing strategies to protect users - Team management: delivering training for new joiners, developing strategies to improve team results Accenture, Portugal, Portugal
2016/07/11 - 2019/12/31 Social media analysis, monitoring racism, homophobia, bullysm and hate speech on social platforms/ media. Providing solutions in order to reduce the impact of those issues on social media users, raising awareness from a bottom up perspective on those issue in a specific country context, developing strategies to take care of users moral well being. Accenture, Portugal, Portugal
2014/04/06 - 2014/12/06 Monitoring Mozambican schools educational projects in cooperation with Serviço distrital da Educaçao de Chibuto, Gaza Province, together with local stakeholders developing strategies on enhancing quality teaching in rural areas, taking care of project logistics, delivering trainings to teachers and students. AIDGLOBAL, Portugal

Escola Portuguesa de Maputo, Mozambique

Serviço distrital de educação da provincia de Gaza, Mozambique
2012/11/05 - 2014/05/04 AIDGLOBAL, Management of Europeaid project “Facilitating global learning”. Fundraising educational tools and educational equipment. Management of Portuguese national cooperation project “Educar para cooperar”. Writing of new socialprojects proposals, developing new team strategies, delivering training with target groups (mainly schools staff and students). Networking with European institutions and Ngos in and outside Europe. AIDGLOBAL, Portugal

European Commission Library and e-Resources Centre, Belgium

IMVF-Instituto Marques de Valle Flor, Portugal
2010/12/16 - 2012/11/30 CESIE, Centro studi e iniziative europeo, one of the leading Ngos in Europe. Project manager with European Commission founded projects. The organization works in the educational and empowerment area of vulnerable groups, such as refugees, minorities and local communities. The job required a range of skills adaptive both to projects in Europe and in developing countries. The job consisted in taking care of the full project circle, from small scale research to project designand proposal writing to implemantation, outcome analysis and follow up. CESIE, Centro studi e iniziative europeo, Italy

Libera, associazione anti mafia, Italy

Commissione Europea Rappresentanza in Italia, Italy

Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2010/02/05 - 2010/10/05 Campaign for change Nepal, is a nepalese Ngo active in several areas from education, to empowering local communities, and protect vulnerable groups such as mainly kids with phisical and mental disabilities. My main tasks were conducting social and ethnological research on target groups, delivering trainings, netwworking with other local ngos, writing project proposals. Together with the ngo I developed a small project to fundraise for a landless community and empowering the infrastructures. CCN-Campaign Change Nepal, Nepal

CESIE, Centro studi e iniziative europeo, Italy

Commissione Europea Rappresentanza in Italia, Italy