Africa-Press – Angola. The narrative of the experience of two peoples is the central focus of the book of short stories “Malanjinos e Ambaquistas”, by the writer Kusekala Júnior, who arrived at the literary market on Friday, during a session of sale and signing of autographs, held at the António Agostinho Neto Memorial, in Luanda.
According to Kusekala Júnior, Ambaca is a municipality located in the province of Cuanza-Norte, which is headquartered in the city of Camabatela, so the Malanjinos are not Ambacas, but a large population of Ambaca resides in Malanje.
“I lived with Malanjinos and also with Ambquistas, and as I grew up in this connection, I know the history of these two peoples, so I portrayed it in a book, so that the new generation can know what the habits and customs of their ancestors were”, said the writer.
When presenting the book, António Fonseca, director of the António Agostinho Neto Memorial, said that the work brings a set of narratives that cross between testimony and the social tale, this genre of traditional literature that is part of entertainment, with the aim of transmitting an example and a lesson.
António Fonseca stressed that the characters in the book are human beings, sometimes mixing with animals, on a secondary level. “The narrated facts are considered to have truly happened in a determinable time and place, even if they contain some magical episodes linked to the human being and intervene in them, as in one of the narrations that make up the present work, the kifumbe, a relatively frequent character especially in the regions of plantations”, said António Fonseca.
Kuzekala Júnior, the literary pseudonym of Domingos Manuel António, was born in Cambunze, municipality of Cacuso, in the province of Malanje, on the 10th of May 1953. He did his primary studies in Malanje and his secondary education in Luanda.
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