Ana Paula Tavares

Ana Paula Tavares’ Presentation on Lisbon Revisited 2019

In Kwanza-Sul, she noticed the various rhythms and grandiosity of a country that cultivates laughter and a short memory to defend itself from the dramas that dehumanize it: slavery, colonialism, domination, small and large powers, opportunism, and ignorance. How dizzying the scheme of history in everyday life is. The generation to which she belongs worried about recovering the lost cultural memory in these violences and others, also with a vivid and intriguing look of the naivety and militancy of independence. I

Face to face

13.04.2024 | by Marta Lança

“The oral tradition is for me a cult”, interview Ana Paula Tavares

born in Huíla, in the midst of an unjust colonial society. There were pastors there. What I owe to the Nyaneka society is poetry, music, the sense of smell, southern orientation. Contact (for anyone in the process of assimilation) was forbidden to us. And it was for this very reason stronger. To learn and to know who they were and who we were was always linked to the paradigm of orality, the flame that wells from being of a place, being aware of the cycles, respect for difference, and an abhorrence of injustice.