Mario Azevedo

{{Short description|Mozambican historian (born 1940)}}

Mario Joaquim Azevedo (born 1940) is a Mozambican novelist, historian, professor, and epidemiologist.{{cite web|url=http://www.jsums.edu/~sph/departments/epi_biostat/AzevedoBio.pdf |title=Dr. Azevedo's Biographical Sketch |access-date=2007-03-28 |work=Jsums.edu |publisher=Jackson State University |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928042228/http://www.jsums.edu/~sph/departments/epi_biostat/AzevedoBio.pdf |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}

A refugee, Azevedo, esteemed as one of the most remarkable Mozambican voices during the years of the War of Independence from Portugal,{{cite web|url= http://www.adpf.asso.fr/librairie/derniers/pdf/nl152_2.pdf|title= Les littératures de l'Afrique de l'Est face à la guerre|access-date= 2007-03-29|work= Littératures anglophones de l’Est de l’Afrique|publisher= The Association for the Diffusion of French Thought|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20061124100514/http://www.adpf.asso.fr/librairie/derniers/pdf/nl152_2.pdf|archive-date= 2006-11-24}} emigrated from his native country to the United States,

{{cite web|url= http://www.african-geopolitics.org/show.aspx?ArticleId=3720|title= Politics and Society: English Speaking Voices|last= Pélissier|first= René|access-date= 2007-03-29|work= Book Notes|publisher= African Geopolitics|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175016/http://www.african-geopolitics.org/show.aspx?ArticleId=3720|archive-date= 2007-09-27}} where he received his B.A. from The Catholic University of America,{{cite web |url= http://www.provost.uncc.edu/Catalogs/2005-2007/directory_faculty.htm |title= Faculty|access-date=2007-03-29 |work= Undergraduate Catalog|publisher=The University of North Carolina at Charlotte |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070206163400/http://www.provost.uncc.edu/Catalogs/2005-2007/directory_faculty.htm |archive-date = 2007-02-06}} his M.A., his Ph.D. from Duke University, from American University, and his M.P.H from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1980 he became associate professor of history at Jackson State University;{{cite journal |last= Azevedo|first= Mario J|date=October 1980|title= 'A Sober Commitment to Liberation?' Mozambique and South Africa 1974-1979 |journal= African Affairs|volume= 79|issue= 317|pages=567–584 |issn=1077-3711|jstor= 198010}} he passed in 1986 to the UNC Charlotte, where he has become Frank Porter Graham Professor{{cite journal |last= Stone|first= Chuck|date=Autumn 2001|title= A Roster of African Americans Who Hold Endowed University Chairs |journal= The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education|volume= 33|issue= 33|pages= 121–125| doi=10.2307/2678940|jstor= 2678940 |publisher= The JBHE Foundation}} and Chair of the Department of African-American and African Studies.

Azevedo was co-coordinator of the Southeastern Regional Seminar in Africa Studies from 1987 to 1989.{{cite web |url= http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/coordinators.htm|title= SERSAS Constitution|access-date=2007-03-29 |work= African Studies Committee|publisher=East Carolina University}}