Liazzat J K Bonate
I am currently an Associate Professor and a Principal Researcher on Cabo Delgado crisis of the Research project “God, grievance, and greed? Understanding Northern Mozambique’s new Islamist war”, Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway, funded by the National Research Fund of Norway. https://www.cmi.no/staff/liazzat-bonate
I have researched Islam in Northern Mozambique in colonial and post-colonial periods by focusing on Islamic Law, ajami, gender relations, land and matriliny, Islamic education, Islamic NGOs, Salafism, Sufi Orders, Muslim relationships with colonial and post-colonial states, governments and institutions, Indian Ocean and Swahili networks, Muslims and liberation movements, Muslim women's access to resources and power.
I was a lecturer in African History at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago (2016-2022). Before that, I taught at Seoul National University in South Korea (2011-2015), and at the Centre for African Studies and the Department of History at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique (1993-2016, on and off). In 2009-2010 I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies and the Centre for Contemporary Islam of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where I researched contemporary Muslim publics and international Islamic NGOs in Mozambique. I have PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town (2007), MA in African History from Northwestern University, USA (2002) and MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK (1998). I obtained my BA and first MA in World History from the al-Farabi University in Kazakhstan (USSR, 1990). I was a short term visiting scholar at ZMO (Das Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany), University of Coimbra (Centro de Estudos Sociais -CES, Portugal) and University of Bergen (UNiFob Global Research Centre, Norway). I was also a short-term consultant to UNICEF, WCRP, Oxfam-America, Care International, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique.
Supervisors: Abdulkader Tayob, Shamil Jeppie, Louis Brenner, John Hunwick, Kate Zebiri, and Jonathon Glassman
I have researched Islam in Northern Mozambique in colonial and post-colonial periods by focusing on Islamic Law, ajami, gender relations, land and matriliny, Islamic education, Islamic NGOs, Salafism, Sufi Orders, Muslim relationships with colonial and post-colonial states, governments and institutions, Indian Ocean and Swahili networks, Muslims and liberation movements, Muslim women's access to resources and power.
I was a lecturer in African History at the University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago (2016-2022). Before that, I taught at Seoul National University in South Korea (2011-2015), and at the Centre for African Studies and the Department of History at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique (1993-2016, on and off). In 2009-2010 I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Religious Studies and the Centre for Contemporary Islam of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where I researched contemporary Muslim publics and international Islamic NGOs in Mozambique. I have PhD in Historical Studies from the University of Cape Town (2007), MA in African History from Northwestern University, USA (2002) and MA in Islamic Societies and Cultures from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London, UK (1998). I obtained my BA and first MA in World History from the al-Farabi University in Kazakhstan (USSR, 1990). I was a short term visiting scholar at ZMO (Das Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Germany), University of Coimbra (Centro de Estudos Sociais -CES, Portugal) and University of Bergen (UNiFob Global Research Centre, Norway). I was also a short-term consultant to UNICEF, WCRP, Oxfam-America, Care International, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Mozambique.
Supervisors: Abdulkader Tayob, Shamil Jeppie, Louis Brenner, John Hunwick, Kate Zebiri, and Jonathon Glassman
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Cabo Delgado Insurgency by Liazzat J K Bonate
Intervenção de Liazzat J. K. Bonate: Cabo Delgado como um Catálogo de Falhas
É preciso fazer mais estudos para determinar o que motiva os ataques naquela região de Moçambique, diz.
“Geralmente os jihadistas fazem declarações, mas até agora ninguém fez. Grupos desses têm feito publicamente algumas reivindicações claras,” diz Bonate.
No caso de Cabo Delgado, diz a estudiosa, “não sabemos o que reivindicam. Para serem (insurgentes) islâmicos, tem de declarar algum fim islâmico”.
Os ataques, naquela província rica em recursos minerais, iniciaram, em Outubro de 2017, e o impacto é devastador. Mais de 200 pessoas mortas e centenas de casas destruídas.
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This article addresses memories of the liberation war by the ordinary Muslims, including male and female guerrilla fighters and political prisoners interviewed in the Paquitequete neighbourhood of Pemba City, Cabo Delgado province, which was one of the pivotal regions of the war. Through their stories the article attempts to give voice to marginalized groups and bring the agency of the forgotten into the public and ongoing contemporary debate in order to re-inscribe them into the national narratives of the independence struggle.