"Terceira Metade": in the shadow of silence

"Terceira Metade": in the shadow of silence What to do with his secret? He was the first to wake up in the Village, and the only one who would know that the fire was dead. Was the circle broken? Would he be haunted by the spirits of the elders for his negligence of loving nature? And had there been such negligence?

Mukanda

01.06.2011 | by Ondja ki

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

“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.

Face to face

07.11.2010 | by Pedro Cardoso