Alexandre dos Santos

Journalist, master’s degree holder, and doctoral candidate in International Relations, he has been a professor at the Institute of International Relations (IRI) at PUC-Rio since 2006 and is one of the coordinators of Lepecad (Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research on the African Continent and the African Diaspora) at PUC-Rio.

He is responsible for the YouTube channel “#ConexãoÁfrica/África em Livros” and the reading club “África em Livros,” dedicated exclusively to works published by African authors. A specialist in the history and geopolitics of the African continent, he is one of the authors of the book “África no mundo contemporâneo” (Africa in the Contemporary World) (Garamond, 2014).

Lattes   –   Instagram: @alsantos72 and @africa_em_livros