Michel Cahen

Michel Cahen is a French historian born with Strasbourg in 1953, specialist in Portuguese-speaking Africa. He is the son of the historian Claude Cahen.

After studies with the Sorbonne and its thesis of State, it becomes, in 1982, researcher associated with the laboratory “Third world, Africa” (university of Paris-VIi/National center of the scientific research), station which it occupies until 1990.

Since 1988, he is researcher in the Center of studies of Black Africa (CEAN), group of research associating the Institute of political studies of Bordeaux and CNRS. He is currently assistant editor of the CEAN.

Principal publications

Works

  • Mozambique, the implosée revolution. Studies over twelve years of independence (1975-1987) , ED. Harmattan, coll “Points of view concrete”, 1987
  • Mozambique, analyzes policy conjonctural 1990 , Indigo Publications, 1990
  • political Ethnicité. For a realistic reading of the identity , Harmattan/Center of study of Black Africa/Center of estudis africans, 1994
  • Nationalization of the world. Europe, Africa, identity in the democracy , ED. Harmattan, 1999
  • Gangsters. A historian in Mozambique , Publications of the Arts center Calouste Gulbenkian, 2002 (translated into Portuguese)
  • the dialectical one of the secrecies. History and ideology in the childbirth under X and the plenary adoption , ED. Karthala, 2004

Directions of collective works

  • Boroughs and Villes in Portuguese-speaking Africa , ED. Harmattan, 1989
  • Portuguese-speaking Countries of Africa. Information sources for the development. Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Divided into volumes E Príncipe , ED. Ibiscus, 2001

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