Prof. Rutte Andrade

Rutte Tavares Cardoso Andrade is a professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in African Philosophy at the University of Ghana and holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), as well as a master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Cape Verde. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Higher Institute of Education (ISE), Cape Verde. She served as General Coordinator of the Africana Studies Center at UNILAB from 2023 to 2025 and is a member of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). In 2023, she received the Award for Excellence in Research and Social Impact at the Pan-African Humanitarian Summit Awards Gala.

Her research project “Afro-Diasporic Philosophies, Orality, and Cosmoperception: Embodied Epistemologies between Africa and the Diaspora” seeks to contribute to the expansion and pluralization of the global philosophical canon by engaging Afro-diasporic epistemologies grounded in orality, memory, embodiment, and community. Drawing on African oral traditions—particularly those of West Africa and their reinterpretations in Afro–Latin American contexts—the project examines how alternative ontologies and modes of knowing challenge hegemonic paradigms within Western philosophy. It focuses especially on rural communities in Cape Verde and Brazil, where African-derived worldviews continue to be embodied and transmitted, often through women’s practices, language, and ritual.

“Informalidade urbana: representacoes sociais da midia sobre a informalidade habitacional urbana na cidade da Praia”, European Scientific Journal September 2014 special edition, Vol. 2.

“Diálogos encruzilhados: Afrocentricidade, Mulherismo Afrikana e Possibilidades epistemológicas emancipatórias,” in: Geranilde Costa e Silva, Evaldo Ribeiro Oliveira. (Org.). Experiencias em Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão na Unilab: Caminhos e Perspetivas, 1ed., Fortaleza: IMPRECE, 2018, v. 3, pp. 379–398.

“Cabo Verde e sua Agenda Epistemológica na Encruzilhada da África Contemporânea: uma análise Histórica do processo de Resistência”, Cadernos de África Contemporânea 1/2, p. 89–105. 

“Mulheres Africanas, Racismo Estrutural e Pandemia de Covid 19: um estudo de caso na cidade da Praia em Cabo Verde”, Revista Farol 8/21 (2021), pp. 22–42.

“Mulheres africanas e cidades no contexto da África Contemporânea: a resistência das mulheres na construção da cidade de Praia em Cabo Verde”, Cidade, Gênero e Raça em contexto de pobreza urbana, 2022.

“A Agência das Mulheres Africanas na Educação: a experiência de Koperativa Per Ankh em Cabo Verde”Revista Capoeira: Revistas de Humanidade e Letras, v. 9, p. 88, 2024.

“Cabo Verde, 50 Anos Após a Independência: Nacionalismo Africano e os desafios da Educação”, Revista Capoeira. Revistas de Humanidade e Letras, Vol. 15, 2025.

“Gender and Diversity in Higher Education Institutions in Africa: A Study at the Public University of Cape Verde”,  CODESRIA, 2025.  

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