Sónia Vaz Borges

Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian and social-political organizer. She received her PhD in History of Education from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin . She is the co-author of the book, Ragás Because the sea has no place to grab. A memoir of home, migration, and African liberation(2024) written with Maria Isabel Vaz, and author of  Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963–1978 (2019).  As a result of her research Vaz Borges co-authored the short films, Weaving Stories While Walking (2024), Mangrove School (2022) and Navigating the Pilot School (2016). Vaz Borges co-curated the Portuguese Pavilion at the La Biennale di Venezia, in 2024, with the project Greenhouse, and together with Mónica de Miranda she curated and coordinated the publication Greenhouse – Art, Ecology and Resistance (2025). She is currently an Assistant Professor in History and in the Africana Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA). Vaz Borges continues to write on education and liberation struggles and is now developing a book proposal focused on her concept of the “walking archive” and the process of memory, place and imaginaries.