Africa-Press – Angola. Agronomist and activist Fernando Pacheco launches, this Thursday and Saturday, in Luanda, the works “Interpelante conversations in Mulemba” and “Chronicles of our land”.
With the seal of the Kacimbo publishing house, the titles condense the analyst’s view of Angola and establish a dialogue with the new generations. The first autograph session takes place at the Centro Cultural Brasil em Angola (CCBA) from 4 pm. The second is an autograph session, followed by a conversation with the author at Livraria Kiela, starting at 11 am.
In “Conversas interpelantes na Mulemba”, the agronomist and pioneer of ADRA (Action for Rural Development and Environment) condenses the chronicles and analyzes he published over more than thirteen years in the Angolan press.
The compendium has a preface by the academic Manuel Ennes Ferreira, who emphasizes the “free writing” and the “structured reasoning” with which Fernando Pacheco “observes, analyses, criticizes, applauds, is irritated or annoyed or even exasperated by the day-to-day life.” This lens allows the author “to provide a guideline for the reading of the challenges that Angola faces since the resumption of formal electoral normality in 2008.”
“Looking at the recent past and the foam of today’s unsettling days, here so well portrayed and anguished in writing, is an act of citizenship”, writes Manuel Ennes Ferreira.
In another register, but with the same concerns (the country as a backdrop), in “Chronicles of our Earth” the author establishes an intergenerational dialogue.
“Fernando Pacheco argues that a commitment to the new generations is necessary, responding to their desires and needs, without forgetting the dignity to which the older generations are entitled. If not, Angola could quickly find itself at a crossroads, where all roads will lead to the same sad fate”, warns João Neves in the preface to the work.
In this way, the book’s prefacer describes it, it intends to reflect the wishes of the youngest “to whom the fair dream of a better life than that of their parents and grandparents was sold” and who “no longer accept to live in the same conditions as them, and they are even less accepting of the justifications given by the rulers for their postponed dreams, while at the same time they continue to see the dramatic accentuation of social inequalities: a small elite that can and has everything and an immense majority who are denied the most elementary rights. .
With “Conversas interpelantes na Mulemba” and “Crónicas da minha terra”, the publishing house “Kacimbo” (in this “Afluentes” collection) promotes the work of one of the most distinguished Angolan analysts, while promoting the discussion about politics, society and national economy, in a year marked by the general elections in the country.
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