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Launch of the book: Mashinamu na Uhuru
3:25 CAT | 15 April 2019
Launch of the book: Mashinamu na Uhuru
Date and Time: Tuesday, April 16 2019 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: CCBM - Centro Cultural Brasil Moçambique, Av. 25 de Setembro no. 1728, Maputo
About the book
Published in 2018 by the publisher Intermeios and FAPESP, with the support of the publisher Kapicua, Lia Dias Laranjeira's book deals with the production of makonde art in dialogue with the political scenario of Mozambique in the colonial context. Since the 19th century, the sculptures produced by the blackwood makonde have been represented in the literature of European travelers and later in colonial literature as one of the most important artistic references in Indica Africa.
Between the 1950s and 1960s, the creation of a market for makonde art and new sculptural styles, such as Shetani and Ujamaa, had a direct bearing on the displacements of the makonde population from Mozambique to Tanganyika (then Tanzania), north of the Rovuma River.
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