Sónia Vaz Borges

Sónia Vaz Borges

Nacimiento : , Portugal

Historia

Sónia Vaz Borges is an interdisciplinary militant historian and social-political organizer. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Humboldt University of Berlin. She is the author of the book “Militant Education, Liberation Struggle; Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978,” (Peter Lang, 2019). She is currently a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin. As part of her academic work, Vaz Borges is developing a book proposal focused on her concept of the ‘walking archive’ and the process of memory and imaginaries. Her last film MANGROVE SCHOOL (2022), co-directed with Filipa César, was selected at Cinéma du Réel.

Perfil

Sónia Vaz Borges

Películas

Mangrove School
Mangrove School
Director
We went to research the conditions of the students in the guerrilla schools in the mangroves. Instead, we soon became ourselves the learners and the first lesson was how to walk. In the mangrove school the learning happens with the whole body.
Navigating the Pilot School
Navigating the Pilot School
Director
Often underestimated as such, the anti-colonial wars of liberation were also large scale educational endeavours. Consider the educational strategies pursued by agronomist Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC. Among those, the Pilot School to form “the best students from our schools in liberated areas, and [to be] integrated in our educational system for the liberated areas”.