Africa-Press – Mozambique. The book “We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories” by Luís Bernardo Honwana celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. This Thursday at 5:30 p.m., to mark the occasion, the Pedagogical University of Maputo will host a symposium to discuss the book’s importance for the socio-cultural current affairs of Mozambicans.
The “Symposium 60 years of We Killed Mangy Dog” will feature interventions by the writer Luís Bernardo Honwana, Dean Jorge Ferrão, Paulino Fumo, director of the Faculty of Language, Communication and Arts Sciences at the Pedagogical University of Maputo (UP-Maputo), among others.
The event includes the participation of essayists who will present to the public the results of their most recent research into Honwana’s work. These include Maria Paula Meneses, Aurélio Cuna, Vanessa Riambau Pinheiro and Cremildo Bahule.
The event will also see the launch of “The Inventory of Memory”, a book that brings together essays by 18 authors from Mozambique, Angola, Portugal, Brazil, the United States and Canada. The publication was organized by essayist and journalist José dos Remédios.
Each essayist analyses at least one of the seven short stories in “We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories” as a way of reflecting on Mozambican, African and global reality through literary analysis.
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