PhD in African Studies, Vasco Martins is Assistant Professor at Iscte (University Institute of Lisbon) and a researcher at the Centre for International Studies at the same institution. His research focuses on issues related to citizenship and informality, ethnicity and the politics of memory, with a particular focus on the Southern African region. He has been published in international journals such as African Studies Review, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of African History, among others. Author of the book Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola (Routledge, 2021), he is also Director of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos.