EDITORIAL

Authors

  • RUI GARRIDO https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-2571
  • MOJANA VARGAS https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-1938
  • YASMINE LOZA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-8016

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26619/1647-7251.DT0425ED

Abstract

Regional integration on the African continent is highly complex and deeply rooted in the pan-Africanist ideal of a United Africa. The regional organization that emerged in the wake of liberation from colonialism—the Organization of African Unity—was limited in terms of political integration. With the dawn of the new millennium, the African Union emerged as a more robust political organization than its predecessor.

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Author Biographies

RUI GARRIDO, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2585-2571

Assistant professor at Universidade Portucalense (Portugal). PhD in African Studies from Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Master's degree in Human Rights from Universidade do Minho, and Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. Postgraduate degree in International Humanitarian Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and former auditor of National Defense at the National Defense Institute.

MOJANA VARGAS, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5353-1938

Associate professor at the Federal University of Paraíba – UFPB (Brazil) and coordinator of NEABI-UFPB (Center for Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Studies and Research) at the same institution, in addition to the project “Ethnic-Racial Dimensions in International Relations.” PhD in African Studies from Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Master's degree in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Program (Unesp-Unicamp-Puc/SP), Bachelor's degree in History from the University of São Paulo (USP).

YASMINE LOZA, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7448-8016

PhD in Human Rights and Social Sciences (2020), completed her master's degree in ‘Roads to Democracy(ies)’, in the field of political science and international relations (2015), both at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). She graduated from the American University in Cairo, Egypt (2012), specializing in Sociology and Psychology. Yasmine completed her postdoctoral studies at the Center for International Studies at the University Institute of Lisbon (2021) and was a research fellow at the Portucalense Legal Institute at the Portucalense Infante D. Henrique University, Porto, Portugal (2023).

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Published

2025-10-20

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 1, TD2 (2025): Thematic Dossier – Twenty Years of the African Union: Past, Present, and Future

Section

EDITORIAL