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  • PoetryDelíriosJoaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta · 1887not translated into EnglishThe verse of a nineteenth-century Angolan who mixed Kimbundu with Portuguese.Literature
  • TaleFolk-Tales of AngolaHéli Chatelain · 1894Oral tales from the Luanda region, written down at the end of the nineteenth century.Literature
  • DocumentaryO caminho de ferro de BenguelaArtur Pereira · 1913A railway filmed in colonial Angola in 1913.Cinema
  • NovelTerra MortaCastro Soromenho · 1949not translated into EnglishThe novel of a dying colony, written by a former recruiting agent who had known Angolan forced labour from the inside.Literature
  • NovelUangaÓscar Ribas · 1951not translated into EnglishA wedding and a spell in old Luanda, between fiction and ethnography.Literature
  • PoetryAmorMário António · 1960not translated into EnglishThe love poems of a young civil servant in Luanda, in the late fifties.Literature
  • PoetryPoemasAntónio Jacinto · 1961not translated into EnglishThe poetry of forced labour and the musseques, written in the early fifties.Literature
  • PoetryPicada de MarimbondoErnesto Lara Filho · 1961not translated into EnglishThe courtyards and childhood of a coastal town in Angola, seen on the eve of the war of independence.Literature
  • PoetryPoemasViriato da Cruz · 1961not translated into EnglishThe few poems of one of the founders of Angolan nationalism, written in the late forties.Literature
  • Short storiesLuuanda: Short Stories of AngolaLuuandaJosé Luandino Vieira · 1964Three stories from the poor districts of Luanda, written in prison in the early sixties.Literature
  • Short storiesQuinaxixeArnaldo Santos · 1965not translated into EnglishStories from the Quinaxixe, a poor district of Luanda, in colonial times.Literature
  • PoetryPoemasAlda Lara · 1966not translated into EnglishThe voice of a poet from Benguela torn between European exile and African land: her only collection.Literature
  • Short storiesSanzala sem batuqueGeraldo Bessa-Victor · 1967not translated into EnglishStories of Luanda under colonial rule, attentive to the tensions between Black people and mixed-race people.Literature
  • Feature filmSambizangaSarah Maldoror · 1972A woman searches for her imprisoned husband, at the dawn of the armed struggle for Angolan independence.Cinema
  • NarrativeMestre TamodaUanhenga Xitu · 1974not translated into EnglishA village pseudo-scholar and his invented language, in Angola under forced labour.Literature
  • PoetrySacred HopeSagrada EsperançaAgostinho Neto · 1974The prison poems of the future Angolan head of state, between colonial night and hope of freedom.Literature
  • NovelAs Lágrimas e o VentoManuel dos Santos Lima · 1975not translated into EnglishThe war of liberation seen from inside the guerrilla, published in the year of independence.Literature
  • PoetryAngola Angolê AngolemaArlindo Barbeitos · 1976not translated into EnglishShort poems born of exile and the war of liberation, on the eve of independence.Literature
  • NovelMayombePepetela · 1980Life in a guerrilla base in the Cabinda forest, in the early seventies.Literature
  • NovelA Konkhava de FetiHenrique Abranches · 1981not translated into EnglishA novel that matured during the Algerian exile of Angolan intellectuals, published after independence.Literature
  • PoetryChuva novembrinaJosé Luís Mendonça · 1981not translated into EnglishThe poetry debut of an author born in 1955, six years after independence.Literature
  • NovelQuem me dera ser ondaManuel Rui Monteiro · 1982not translated into EnglishA pig in a building in Luanda just after independence: a satire of daily life under the new regime.Literature
  • PoetryOndula, savana brancaRuy Duarte de Carvalho · 1982not translated into EnglishProverbs, myths and songs of African orality retold in Portuguese, in the early eighties.Literature
  • PoetryRitos de passagemAna Paula Tavares · 1985not translated into EnglishAn intimate poetry of the female body, ten years after independence.Literature
  • PoetrySabores, odores e sonhoAna de Santana · 1986not translated into EnglishDesire and war in a single voice: the first book of an Angolan poet of the post-independence years.Literature
  • Feature filmThe Train of CanhocaComboio da CanhocaOrlando Fortunato de Oliveira · 1989Prisoners crammed into a wagon in the sun, a few years before the colonial war.Cinema
  • Feature filmCaravanaRogelio París · 1990A Cuban military convoy on its way to an isolated bridge, in a country torn apart by fighting.Cinema
  • Feature filmO miradouro da LuaJorge António · 1993A son goes to Angola to meet an unknown father, in the time of the civil war.Cinema
  • NovelCreoleNação crioulaJosé Eduardo Agualusa · 1997Angola in the time of the slave trade, seen through the letters of a European traveller.Literature
  • Short storiesImitação de Sartre & Simone de BeauvoirJoão Melo · 1999not translated into EnglishThe first story collection by a poet and journalist from Luanda.Literature