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Mozambique

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  • TaleLes Chants et les contes des Ba-RongaHenri-Alexandre Junod · 1897not translated into EnglishThe songs and tales of the Ronga people, recorded at the end of the nineteenth century by a Swiss missionary.Literature
  • PoetrySonetosRui de Noronha · 1946not translated into EnglishThe sonnets of a railwayman from Lourenço Marques, son of an Indian father and an African mother, published after his death by a former teacher.Literature
  • PoetrySangue negroNoémia de Sousa · 1951not translated into EnglishPoems written in Lourenço Marques at the end of the forties, which remained uncollected for half a century.Literature
  • Short storiesWe Killed Mangy-Dog and Other StoriesNós matámos o Cão-TinhosoLuís Bernardo Honwana · 1964Stories of a Black childhood in a colonial suburb, written by an activist in his twenties.Literature
  • NovelPortagemOrlando Mendes · 1966not translated into EnglishThe novel of a mixed-race man of the colony, rejected by both worlds from which he was born.Literature
  • PoetryA Ilha de PrósperoRui Knopfli · 1972not translated into EnglishPoems about the island that gave the country its name, reread by a poet of the colony in the face of the Portuguese epic.Literature
  • PoetryKaringana ua karinganaJosé Craveirinha · 1974not translated into EnglishPoems that take up the speech of the Ronga storytellers, published in Lourenço Marques the year before independence.Literature
  • Feature filmMueda, Memory and MassacreMueda, memória e massacreRuy Guerra · 1979The popular reconstruction of a colonial massacre, filmed by a filmmaker who returned from Brazil after independence.Cinema
  • PoetryMonçãoLuís Carlos Patraquim · 1980not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a Maputo poet, published five years after independence and turned towards intimate lyricism.Literature
  • PoetrySilêncio escancaradoRui Nogar · 1982not translated into EnglishThe poems of an activist whom the colonial political police had imprisoned, published after independence.Literature
  • PoetryAmar sobre o ÍndicoEduardo White · 1984not translated into EnglishThe first collection of a poet from Quelimane, an amorous and maritime voyage written in the midst of civil war.Literature
  • Feature filmTime of the LeopardsO Tempo dos LeopardosZdravko Velimirović · 1985A Mozambican and Yugoslav war film on the Frelimo resistance, based on accounts collected by Licínio Azevedo.Cinema
  • Short storiesVoices Made NightVozes anoitecidasMia Couto · 1986Its author's first book of short stories, written at the height of the civil war in Mozambique.Literature
  • NovelUalalapi: Fragments from the End of EmpireUalalapiUngulani Ba Ka Khosa · 1987The last emperor of Gaza, raised to national hero by the regime of independence, shown as a despot.Literature
  • NarrativeDumba Nengue: Run for Your LifeDumba Nengue: histórias trágicas do banditismoLina Magaia · 1987Peasant testimonies gathered in the middle of the war by a former fighter turned agricultural official.Literature
  • PoetryCanto do Amor NaturalMarcelino dos Santos · 1987not translated into EnglishPoems of the anticolonial struggle, long scattered under pseudonyms, gathered by a leader of the liberation movement.Literature
  • PoetryAmarantoGlória de Sant'Anna · 1988not translated into EnglishThirty years of poems by a Portuguese woman who lived for more than twenty years in the colony, facing Pemba Bay.Literature
  • Short storiesNinguém matou SuhuraLília Momplé · 1988not translated into EnglishFive moments of ordinary colonial violence, from the village of 1935 to the Angola of 1974.Literature
  • Short storiesO regresso do mortoSuleiman Cassamo · 1989not translated into EnglishThe first book of a Mozambican short-story writer, scenes of the southern countryside written in a Portuguese mixed with Ronga.Literature
  • NovelBalada de amor ao ventoPaulina Chiziane · 1990not translated into EnglishA young woman from southern Mozambique, caught between a lost love and the customs of polygamous marriage.Literature
  • Short filmBonfireFogataJoão Ribeiro · 1992A short story by a Mozambican writer brought to the screen in eighteen minutes, as the war was coming to an end.Cinema
  • CinemaThe Tree of AncestorsA Árvore dos AntepassadosLicínio Azevedo · 1994The return of a family of refugees to their village, filmed as the civil war ended.Cinema