Mario Azevedo

Mario Joaquim Azevedo (born 1940) is a Mozambican novelist, historian, professor, and epidemiologist.

A refugee, Azevedo, esteemed as one of the most remarkable Mozambican voices during the years of the War of Independence from Portugal, emigrated from his native country to the United States, where he received his B.A. from The Catholic University of America, his M.A., his Ph.D. from Duke University, from American University, and his M.P.H from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. he passed in 1986 to the UNC Charlotte, where he has become Frank Porter Graham Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American and African Studies.

Works The Returning Hunter, 1978 Africa and Its People: An Interdisciplinary Survey of the Continent (editor), 1982 Cameroon and Its National Character (editor), 1984 Cameroon and Chad in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (editor), 1989 Historical Dictionary of Mozambique, 1991 Kenya: The Land, the People, and the Nation (editor), 1993 Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora (editor), 1993 Chad: A Nation in Search of Its Future (co-authored with Emmanuel U. Nnadozie), 1997 Roots of Violence: History of War in Chad, 1998 Tragedy and Triumph: Mozambique Refugees in Southern Africa, 1977-2001, 2002