Abstract:J oseph Calder Miller, or as he likes to be called "Joe", is one of the foremost current Africanists historians 5. He got his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, home of many of the researchers who helped consolidate the field of African history, he was advised by Philip Curtin and Jan Vansina. His research field was the History of Angola, in particular the Imbangala, a community that lived independently of Portuguese rule until the twentieth century.
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