This meeting aims to showcase a young generation of Mozambican authors and has invited some of their representatives to join us. The work of these authors reveals how, as a whole, Mozambican literature continues to reinvent itself and change, echoing the problems of the present world experienced by a new generation of promising authors. Children's literature and the place of chronicles are some of the themes that will be addressed in two meetings.

In this second meeting, the conversation will be with Lucílio Manjate (author and professor of Mozambican literature) and Jessemusse Cacinda (author and PhD candidate in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship).

During the meeting, Jessemusse Cacinda's Kwashala Blues will be presented
 

Moderator: Maria Paula Meneses (CES)


Bio notes

Lucílio Manjate (Mozambique) is a PhD candidate in Language Sciences Applied to Language Teaching at the Pedagogical University of Maputo. He is also a lecturer at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the Eduardo Mondlane University. He won the first Eduardo Costley-White Literary Prize from the Luso-American Development Foundation in 2017 for his novel Rabhia.

Jessemusse Cacinda (Mozambique), is a Mozambican journalist, philosopher, and author. Cacinda holds a Master's degree in Sociology from the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo and a postgraduate degree in Project Management from the Higher Institute of Management, Administration and Education in Maputo. He is also cofounder of the publishing house Ethale Publishing. His debut book in narrative prose, Kwashala Blues (Ethale), was considered by Mozambican academic Lourenço do Rosário to be “a work of great depth and reflection on the incidences of life”.

Activity under the Doctoral Programme in Postcolonialisms and Global Citizenship and the project EDU-AM Revolutionary pedagogies? History of the education projects in Angola and Mozambique (1960s-1980s) [funded by National Funds through FCT- Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., (2022.01785.PTDC)].