Africa-Press – Angola. Writers and journalists Israel Campos, from Angola, and Eduardo Quive, from Mozambique, will launch, in Maputo, the Mozambican capital, on the 27th of this month, a prose anthology entitled “Building Tomorrow with Clay from Within – Voices of Post-Independence.”
According to a press release sent this Tuesday, the work consists of 19 short stories by writers from Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP), namely Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe.
The anthology brings together writers from the PALOP countries, as they share the celebration of 50 years of independence.
These authors are writers born in the post-independence period, most of whom are leading figures in contemporary African literature, as well as other promising writers who have been gaining notoriety for their talent.In addition to Israel Campos, the work brought together three other Angolan writers: Oliver Quiteculo, Rosa Soares, and Sérgio Fernandes.
The initiative also included three writers from Cape Verde, the same number from São Tomé and Príncipe, four from Guinea-Bissau, and the same number from Mozambique.
The anthology features a foreword by Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane and Inocência Mata, professor of literature and cultural studies at the University of Lisbon.
For Inocência Mata, this anthology invites the reader to read slowly, to hear the voices, and to listen to the silence.
“Throughout these pages, we will find words that hurt and disturb, but also that motivate and give hope,” she said.
He added that the authors of the anthology are attentive to the fractures and silences that open up before them, narrating the present with bitter lucidity. “They don’t celebrate, they denounce.”
The launch event will be supported by the Mozambican digital platform Catalogus, in partnership with Camões – Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo.
Israel Campos is an Angolan journalist and writer, winner of the 2nd edition of the Imprensa Nacional/Casa da Moeda Literary Award (2024) and the Ferreira de Castro Youth Literature Award (2025).
With nearly a decade of experience in the press, he freelances for international media outlets such as the BBC, Voice of America, Al Jazeera, and the Wall Street Journal.
In 2023, he published his debut novel “And the Sky Changed Color” (Kacimbo, 2023). He is currently a PhD candidate in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds.
Eduardo Quive is a journalist and writer. His published works include “The Color of Your Shadow” (Novel, 2025), “Mutilated” (Short Stories, 2024), “Where Did the Living Go?” (Poetry, 2022), and “The Abyss at Our Feet – 25 Lusophone Writers Respond to the Imminent End of the World in 2020” (co-author, Interviews). He co-founded Catalogus and is a contributor to the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation.
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