Africa-Press – Angola. A book in digital format entitled “Em mim lives memories of an Angola” will be released on the 27th of this month by the Angolan photographer and documentary filmmaker Marisol Kadiegi, based in Brazil since 1986.
The launch act will take place online, on digital broadcasting platforms, according to the author in statements, Thursday, to press, via WhatsApp, where she informed that the work arises from the need to fill a gap in the face of the perception of the lack of references in the various fields of research on the black people and as a way of preserving memories in Angola.
He made it known that the photo-book portrays the experiences of a decade, between 2007 and 2017, after returning to Angola, where he left 31 years ago.
In the work, the author weaves “a patchwork quilt” with pieces of her history, to reconstitute or retain the memory from which it was once subtracted, and Angola is represented under the eyes of one of her daughters, where ancestry, identity , traditions and culture are a connection called memories.
The 133-page work is divided into four chapters and is published by the Brazilian publisher Oribê.
Marisol Kadiegi is a photographer, journalist and documentarian. Graduated in Social Communication and postgraduate in photography as a Support for Imagination (2021), by Espaço Cultural f/508, and in Cultural History, Identity, Traditions and Borders, by the Faculty of History of the University of Brasília (Brazil).
She is the winner in Brazil of the awards: “Black women tell their history”, in 2012, in the Writing category, awarded by the Secretariat of Policies for Women, of the Presidency of the Republic; “Brasilia 60 years”, in 2020; and “Mulher Negra 2021”, published the text “From Mourning to Fight: The History of Three Continents Marked by Racism” (2012) and the articles: “Cinema de cuisine – the territoriality of Black Cinema in the feminine” (2018), ” Merê: territories and territorialities of kitchen cinema” (2018).
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