Forgotten Diaspora Jewish Communities in West Africa and the Making of the Atlantic World

Jos_ da Silva Horta is Assistant Professor, with tenure, of African History and of Expansion History at Lisbon University, where he is also a researcher at the Center of History. He serves as director of the Faculty of Letters Doctoral Program in African History and of the African Studies Undergraduate Program. He is author of A 'Guin_ do Cabo Verde': produY#227;o textual e representaY#245;es (1578-1684), PhD dissertation, 2002 (revised to the press). His publications include A representaY#227;o do Africano na Literatura de Viagens, do Senegal ... Serra Leoa (1453-1508) (1991) and articles in international journals.