Jos da Silva Horta is Assistant Professor, with tenure, of African History and of Expansion History at Lisbon University, where he is also a researcher at the Center of History. He serves as director of the Faculty of Letters Doctoral Program in African History and of the African Studies Undergraduate Program. He is author of A 'Guin do Cabo Verde': produ o textual e representa es (1578 1684), PhD dissertation, 2002 (revised to the press). His publications include A representa o do Africano na Literatura de Viagens, do Senegal Serra Leoa (1453 1508) (1991) and articles in international journal...