Gerhard Seibert graduated in Cultural Anthropology from Utrecht University, Netherlands, in 1991, and earned a Ph.D. in Social Sciences at Leiden University, Netherlands, in 1999. Until 2008 he was post-doctorate fellow at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Lisbon, Portugal. From 2008 to 2014 he was researcher at the African Studies Center at ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute (CEA / ISCTE-IUL). Between 2014 and 2019 he was associate professor at Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira  (UNILAB), Campus dos Malês, São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil. Since 2015 he has been permanent professor of the graduate programme PósAfro at Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO) of Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) in Salvador. He has conducted research in Mozambique, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe and on Brazil – Africa relations. He is author of Comrades, Clients and Cousins. Colonialism, Socialism and Democratization in São Tomé and Príncipe (Leiden: Brill 2006), The Wealth of Históry of the Small Twin-Island State São Tomé and Príncipe (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2024) and co-editor of Brazil-Africa Relations. Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Engagements (Woodbridge: James Currey, 2019).