Patrícia Godinho Gomes

Patrícia Godinho Gomes (born 26 June 1972) is a Bissau-Guinean historian and academic whose research studies the role of women in anticolonial resistance, African feminisms and gender in Lusophone countries with a particular focus on Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Biography Gomes was born in Angola on 26 June 1972. She grew up in Guinea-Bissau. She studied in Portugal at the Technical University of Lisbon and graduated in 1995 with a degree in Political Science, with a specialization in African Studies. She studied for her doctorate at the University of Cagliari and graduated in 2002. As of 2020 she was an Associate Researcher at the National Institute of Studies and Research in Guinea-Bissau.

The experience of women in Lusophone countries in Africa and their anti-colonial resistance is central to her research. In 2017, Gomes worked on a comparative research project, which examined the experiences of African and Afro-Brazilian women from a global south perspective. Since both Guinea-Bissau and Brazil were Portuguese colonies, examining how the colonial legacies on gender differ is an important research topic. She has also worked on the role that women from Guine-Bissau have played in intellectual production in the country. She is an expert on the life of Teodora Inácia Gomes.

Selected publications

Encontros e desencontros de lá e de cá do Atlântico: mulheres africanas e afro-brasileiras em perspectivas de gênero (SciELO-EDUFBA, 2017). 'A Mulher guineense como sujeito e objecto do debate histórico contemporâneo: Excertos da história de vida de Teodora Inácia Gomes' Africa Development (2016).