Africa-Press – Angola. An essay book by the Angolan writer Carlos Pedro, entitled “The Anticolonialist Dimension of Poetry by Agostinho Neto”, was launched this Friday in Luanda.
The 63-page book, divided into three chapters, brings the author’s reflection on the poetry of Agostinho Neto, the first President of Angola and considered the “Greatest Poet” in the country.
The work, with an initial print run of 500 copies, has the seal of Alupolo publishing house.
According to Carlos Pedro, Agostinho Neto undertook a struggle against the ideals of Portuguese colonization, with the aim of achieving, on the one hand, the independence of his country, and on the other hand, the liberation of all black peoples around the world, who suffered some kind of of oppression.
He pointed out, for example, that the poem Sagrada Esperança represents, through its poetic subject, a piece of denunciation of the atrocities of a colonial system.
Born in Luanda, Carlos Pedro, writer and reciter, is the current president of the Youth Brigade of Literature in Angola.
He has published two books, “Pegadas do Passado” and “Nga Mbaka Kambumbu – Memórias da Minha Infância”, as well as participating, with his literary works, in the anthologies “Os Africanos”, “Asas da Liberdade”, “Palavras Textos e Contextos ”, “Links of a Chain that Unites us and Roots” and “Ties of Angola with Brazil”.
Winner of the LITERARTE Prize for Literature 2012, best poets category and LITERARTE Prize for Culture 2013, he is a member of the academies of Letters in Búzios and Fortaleza(Brazil).
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