Africa-Press – Angola. The presence of Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane in the capital of Huíla, between the 4th and 6th of December, will be an excuse to speed up the presentation of Volume II of the collection “Os Bantu in the vision of Mafrano”, on the 5th of December , at 5 pm, at the Huíla Catholic Mission, 16 kilometers from Lubango.
The event is being prepared in close coordination with the team of writer Paulinha Chiziane and the other participants.
The choice of the Catholic Mission of Huíla is justified by its double historical significance: on the one hand, it was there where Canon José Pereira da Costa Frotta, the Santomean priest who was tutor to Maurício Francisco Caetano “Mafrano”, studied and, on the other hand, , it is a Historical Monument and National Heritage, in addition to being a Seminar. It is also expected that the presentation of Mafrano’s work will place side by side the Mozambican writer, laureate of the Camões 2021 prize, and Dom Zacarias Kamwenho, laureate awarded the 2001 Sakharov Prize and author of the preface to the collection “The Bantu in the vision of Mafrano”.
The presentation of Mafrano’s work in Huíla was initially scheduled for July this year, but was subsequently postponed as it coincided with the World Youth Festival, held at the same time, in Lisbon, and in which the diocese of Huíla was also represented. From July to date, a series of events and commitments, on both sides, ended up postponing the presentation of this posthumous work that has already become a new icon of social anthropology in Angola and beyond its borders.
The Mozambican writer arrived in Luanda on Sunday night as a guest at the Congress of the Order of Engineers of Angola. Paulina Chiziane had already welcomed with great interest a project to take volume II of Mafrano’s posthumous collection to Maputo, in an initiative that involves friends of the author’s family and the Mozambican Writers Association (AEMO).
Paulina Chiziane, 68 years old, began her literary activity in 1984, with stories published in the press in her country, many of which about controversial social issues such as polygamy in Mozambique and, “roughly speaking”, in Africa. Bibliography includes other works such as “Balada de amor ao vento” (1990), “Ventos do apocalipse” (1993), “O Sétimo Juramento” (2000), “O Alegre Canto da Perdiz” (2008) and “As Andorinhas” ( 2009).
In 2003, the Mozambican writer won the José Craveirinha Literature Prize, with the novel “Niketche”, and in 2021, she became the first woman to be distinguished with the Camões Prize, the most prestigious distinction given to Portuguese-language writers.
Maurício Caetano, “Mafrano”, was an orphan boy, aged six, when Canon José Pereira da Costa Frotta took him to the Dondo Catholic Mission School and, later, to the Luanda Seminary, where he completed his studies. studies. After completing his studies in Angola, Canon José Frotta was ordained a priest in 1905 in São Tomé and Príncipe, and returned to Angola where he worked until his last days, passing away in Luanda on the 29th of June 1954. José Pereira da Costas Frotta was parish priest of Muxima and Igreja do Carmo, in Luanda, founder of the parish of Cambambe and the school of the Catholic Mission of Dondo, in the province of Cuanza-Norte.
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