Amaro Monteiro

Journalist, short story writer, and poet. He completed his secondary education in Luanda (Angola). He graduated in Historical-Philosophical Sciences in 1962. He was a French government scholarship holder between 1967 and 1968, and, on secondment from the Ministry of Overseas Territories, to conduct studies on Islam at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Aix-en-Provence. He earned a «Docteur d' Université» in History in 1968 from the University of Aix-Marseille, equivalent to a master's degree in African Studies from the Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (Technical University of Lisbon). He presented his doctoral thesis at the Technical University of Lisbon in 1992. He held various professional positions, including reporter for Diário Ilustrado (1959), secondary school teacher (1960-1965), deputy director of the newspaper Notícias (Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, 1969-70), researcher for the Faculty of Letters at the University of Lourenço Marques (1970-1974), concurrently directing the newspaper A Tribuna, director of the Services of the Mozambique Information and Tourism Center (from February 1874 to August of the same year), and then assumed identical functions in Angola until December 1974. Upon returning to Portugal, he was a Portuguese lecturer at the University of Toulouse (1975-1976), then a senior staff member of the Information Division of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (1976-1979), a board member of the «Universidade Livre» Teaching Cooperative (since 1979), a staff advisor to the National Board for Scientific Research (1980-1982), a staff advisor to the National Library (1982), deputy director-general of Administrative Integration (1984-1985), and an advisor to the presidency of the Institute for Scientific and Tropical Research (1985-1987), the year he requested retirement from public service. In the private sector, he has been associated with various universities, namely Universidade Internacional (since 1984) and Universidade Portucalense (since 1991), where he teaches subjects within the scope of Islamic studies. He coordinates research projects at study centers based at the aforementioned universities. Since 1992, he has directed the magazine Africana. He participated in various seminars and study missions, both domestically and abroad, related to Africa and Islam. He delivered several lectures at higher education institutions, universities, and military institutes. He has published works in various specialized journals. He is a member of the Association of Teachers and Researchers of the Portuguese Language and the National Association of International Relations Professionals. He is represented in Antologia do Conto Ultramarino (1972), by Amândio César.