Mozambique: ENI Open Day
Ricardo Barradas to launch two books @ CCP “Ilha da Moçambique, stories of its history” and “Memories of the elephants of Mozambique”
3:09 CAT | 21 November 2018
Ricardo Barradas to launch two books @ CCP “Ilha da Moçambique, stories of its history” and “Memories of the elephants of Mozambique”
The Portuguese Cultural Center (CCP) will launch two important books by Ricardo Barradas: "Ilha de Moçambique, Stories of its History" and "Memories of the elephants of Mozambique".
The works will be presented on this occasion by Álvaro Carmo Vaz, Professor of the Eduardo Mondlane University and the first Bâtonnier of the Order of Engineers of Mozambique, in a session that will be moderated by Filimone Meigos, sociologist, writer, journalist, and director of the Higher Institute of Arts and Communication.
"Ilha de Moçambique, estórias da sua história", represents a contribution to the commemorations of the 200 years of elevation of the Island of Mozambique, and "Memoria dos elefantes de Moçambique" recalls how the ivory trade was, besides trade in gold and enslaved, an important motor for the development of Mozambique; the massacre of elephants and their violent environmental aggression in the country, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries determined by the ivory trade, is a basic part of this book.
In the author's opinion, this vast work is mainly dedicated to young Mozambicans in an attempt to promote and facilitate a better knowledge of the rich history of Mozambique.
About Ricardo Barradas
Ricardo Barradas was born in Maputo in 1948. He completed medical school in the year of independence and worked in central hospitals in the cities of Nampula, Beira and Maputo for 25 years, first as a general surgeon and later as a plastic surgeon. He was chief provincial physician in Nampula in 1975 and held several management positions in the three hospitals referred to. He also worked occasionally in almost every provincial hospital in the country.
Since 1977, he has been a university professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Eduardo Mondlane University, where he has been director for six years and has also taught at different health training institutions in these three cities. After retiring from health services, he received a postgraduate degree from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, having acquired a Master's degree in HIV and AIDS Management in 2005. His interest in Mozambique's history dates back to colonial times , as an activist of the Academic Association of Mozambique and member of its Mozambican Studies Center.
Date and Time: Wednesday, November 28 2018 at 17h30
Entrance: Free
Address: Camões - Centro Cultural Português, Av. Julius Nyerere no. 720, Maputo
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