Lourenço Ocuni Cá promoted to full professor at UNILAB
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on ANG
Bissau-Guinean academic Lourenço Ocuni Cá has been promoted to full professor at the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony. His thesis examines the social and cultural organisation of the Pepel group, including matrilineal descent, succession and inheritance, according to Guinea-Bissau's embassy in Brazil.
Lourenço Ocuni Cá, a professor and founding member of the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), has been promoted to the rank of full professor, the highest grade in the university academic career. The announcement was welcomed by the Guinea-Bissau embassy in Brazil, according to the Guinean Press Agency (ANG).
His thesis, entitled “P’Kach Ondima – Revisiting the Origins in Guinea-Bissau”, examines the social and cultural organisation of the Pepel ethnic group, including matrilineality, transmission of the maternal lineage, kinship relations, succession, inheritance and the social role of the maternal uncle, according to ANG. Lourenço Ocuni Cá holds a degree in literature and linguistics and a master's degree and doctorate in education from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). His work focuses in particular on education, public policy, educational management, youth and adult education, and development cooperation.
