I am working in crossroads of memory studies, political history and hip hop, and specialised in Mozambican rap. I defended my thesis in cultural anthropology in 2017 at the University of Eastern Finland. At 2018-2019 I was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC). My recent works about Maputo rap include ‘‘Hidrunisa Samora’: Invocations of a Dead Political Leader in Maputo Rap’, published in the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS), and ‘Who has the word? MC Azagaia’s intervention into past and politics in Mozambique’ in Lusophone Hip-Hop anthology. I also contributed the second book about the topic (in Portuguese) widening my regional perspective to Beira and Chimoio, central Mozambique. I was winner of the Colin Murray Grant awarded annually by the JSAS ‘for engaged and original fieldwork’. I recently gave a talk about ambivalence of Samora Machel in Mozambican rap in the 2019 Annual African History Lecture of the UWC, and just before current corona restrictions I talked about sonic biography of Mozambican alternative hero Uria Simango in Africa Open Institute, Stellenbosch and in the Centro de Estudos Africanos, Maputo. I am a scientific coordinator of the Mozambican grass root research organisation Bloco 4 Foundation, and a member of an international hip hop collective Interligados. I designed a general theme for the group’s song ‘O Poder dos Fracos’ (Power of the Weak), which was broadcast in the Chuck D’s And You Don’t Stop show broadcast widely throughout the planet.

P.S. I am also an emergent radio feature maker. My first long feature (in Finnish) was based on my research and Maputo’s sounds, and was broadcast by the Finnish Broadcasting Company. I have also prepared shorter podcasts for instance for Mozambican hip hop radio programmes.