Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

[2] She is the author of Esse Cabelo [That Hair], Ajudar a cair, Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, Pintado com o pé and A visão das plantas.

Her writing has appeared in granta.com, Blog da Companhia das Letras, Granta Portugal, Serrote, Zum, Pessoa, Ler, Buala, and elsewhere.

[4] This Hair, her first book, published in 2015, combines biographical elements with novel and essay and starts from the experience of a black-skinned, curly-haired girl from Angola in the Portuguese society of the mid-1980s.

She started writing it when she left academic life, however, she claims to find a relationship between the book and her doctoral thesis.

[6] In March 2021, she was appointed consultant to the Civil House of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.