The prose anthology “Building Tomorrow with Clay from Within - Voices of Post-Independence,” recently launched in Mauto and organized by writers and journalists Eduardo Quive and Israel Campos, is coming to Luanda, the capital of Angola.
The work, which brings together 19 narratives by authors from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe, will be presented on December 11th by writer and art critic Adriano Mixinge.
The book features writers born in the post-independence period, most of whom are already references in contemporary African literature, as well as other promising authors who have been standing out for their talent.
The authors included are Amadu Dafé, Ailton Moreira, Alice Pessoa, Edson Incopté, Eileen Barbosa, Happy Taimo, Ivanick Lopanza, Janine Oliveira, Jessemusse Cacinda, Luana Cardoso Pereira, Marinho Pina, Maya Ângela Macuácua, Mélio Tinga, Oliver Quiteculo, Pedro Sequeira de Carvalho, Rosa Soares, and Sérgio Fernandes, as well as stories by the organizers, Eduardo Quive and Israel Campos.
It also features a preface by the renowned Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane and Inocência Mata, Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Lisbon.
To coincide with this launch, Eduardo Quive will participate in various literary events in Luanda, along with Israel Campos and other Angolan authors included in the anthology, namely Rosa Soares, Oliver Quiteculo, and Sérgio Fernandes.
In this sense, on the 5th, at the Kiela Bookstore, the writer will discuss “Literary Bridges in the PALOP: challenges and opportunities”, in a conversation moderated by Ngoi Salucombo, cultural programmer at the Goethe-Institut Angola. The following day, he will dialogue with fellow writers at the Biblioteca Contr’Ignorância, and, on the same day, at the 10Padronizada space, he will debate “Building Bridges, Dreaming Utopias: the book, circulation and access in Angola and Mozambique”.
On the 8th, at the Angolan Writers' Union (UEA), Quive will participate in the debate “Between Memory and the Future: Young People and Books in the PALOP”, moderated by the writer and journalist Gociante Patissa, before, at the Faculty of Humanities of Agostinho Neto University, speaking about “Building Tomorrow with Clay from Within - Voices of Post-Independence”, moderated by professor and writer Domingas Monte.
(By MozaVibe)
