Africa-Press – Angola. The first volume of a collection on cultural anthropology entitled “The Bantu in Mafrano’s Vision – Almost Memories”, by the Angolan writer and ethnologist Maurício Francisco Caetano, “Mafrano”, will be presented posthumously on Friday at 17:00 , in the city of Praia, in Cape Verde.
The presentation of the work in the city of Praia will be made by one of the author’s sons, the journalist and also writer José Soares Caetano, “Tazuary Nkeita”.
The author of this work, Maurício Francisco Caetano, was National Director of Taxation at the Ministry of Finance in Angola from 1975 to 1982, and a founding member of the Angolan Writers’ Union (UEA). He also stood out as a professor of Portuguese and Philosophy at prestigious educational establishments in Angola, namely at the Lyceum Ngola Kiluanji, the PIO XII Institute, the ICRA (Institute of Religious Sciences of Angola) and the Commercial Institute of Luanda.
His work deals with anthropological and ethnolinguistic issues of the so-called Bantu peoples, in a comparative study with other peoples of the world.
In Angola, this book was first presented at the end of April this year, at the Padre Sikufinde Major Seminary, in Lubango, Huíla province, by Dom Zacarias Kamuenho, Archbishop Emeritus of Lubango and Sakharov Prize 1992 . 14th of May, at the Catholic University of Angola, in Luanda, a tribute was paid to the 40th anniversary of the author’s physical passing, which took place in July 1982. The ceremony was attended by important public figures of Angolan society, such as former -Ministers of Finance, Health, Media and the Interior, as well as high ecclesiastical authorities, writers, academics, former students, lovers of literature and old contemporaries.
Mauricio Francisco Caetano stood out with several articles that he published in the Angolan press, still in the 50’s, leaving a vast literary estate that is now being compiled in a collection to be published in three volumes and which includes “Crónicas lightweight”, “Notes in pencil ”, “Episódios Vividos”, “Tertulias”, traditional tales and other texts.
The book “Os Bantu in Mafrano’s vision” reproduces research carried out by the author on the ancestral life of the Bantu peoples, from more than five thousand years ago, bringing us reflections on the prehistory of African civilization. The book has 212 pages and is prefaced by the Archbishop Emeritus of Lubango, Dom Zacarias Kamuenho, who considered the author as “the greatest anthropologist” of Angola.
In the opinion of the Archbishop of Luanda, Dom Filomeno Vieira Dias, “this book will help to understand the practices of the peoples of this region”.
In turn, the Apostolic Nuncio of the Holy See to Angola, Archbishop Giovanni Gaspari, wrote in this regard that “the book will be very useful for the knowledge of Angolan culture”.
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