Biography

Josué Bila is an anthropologist and human rights journalist-activist. He is currently a PhD candidate in Human Rights in Contemporary Societies at the University of Coimbra. He holds a master's degree in social anthropology from the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil), since 2017, and a bachelor's degree in theology from Mackenzie Presbyterian University - Sao Paulo (Brazil), since 2013. He has a certificate in human rights and political journalism from PUC-SP (Pontifical Catholic University - São Paulo), through the International Exchange in Human Rights, of the Global South Program of Conectas Human Rights, funded by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa - OSISA (2006 -2007). As a result of his studies in social anthropology and human rights, he researches the relationship between privilege, structural violence and human rights in Mozambique. He is also the former editor-in-chief of the magazine "Democracy and Human Rights" of the Mozambican Human Rights League (2003-2005), former reporter for the newspaper "O PAÍS" (2002-2003) and former correspondent for the newspaper Pravda "Notícias e materiais analíticos - PortPravda" (2008-2011). Personal site: http://www.dhnet.org.br/dados/livros/dh/josue_bila/ Personal blog: https://bantulandia.blogspot.com.br.