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Launch of the book “Whites can also dance”
12:32 CAT | 8 May 2019
Launch of the book “Whites can also dance”
Date and Time: Thursday, May 18 2019 at 18h00
Entrance: Free
Address: Camões – Centro Cultural Português, Av. Julius Nyerere no. 720, Maputo
About the event
On May 16, a session will be held at Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo, where the book will also be presented, the first novel by musician and writer Kalaf Epalanga. With the seal of Editora Caminho (Leya group), the presentation of the book will be in charge of the poet and editor Mbate Pedro.
About the book
The musician and writer Kalaf Epalanga, a member of the band Buraka Som Sistema, drives from the Swedish city of Gothenburg to Oslo, the capital of Norway, where he performed at the OYA festival.
As he does not have a valid passport to show he is detained for attempted illegal immigration and taken to the police station for questioning. Aware of the imminence of losing the concert, he wonders: how am I going to explain to these Norwegian policemen that, despite my uncommon appearance at these stops, I am nothing more than a peaceful Angolan musician on the road? How can I explain to them who is Buraka Som Sistema? Should I tell them about the Lisbon music festival? How was Kuduro born in a "musseque" in Luanda? Will they understand? This is the story of this extraordinary and surprising book by Kalaf Epalanga.
It is actually a work of self-fiction, cultivated by so many European writers but relatively rare among us. And the world that shows us - from Luanda to Kristiansund, from Beirut to Rio de Janeiro, not to mention his beloved Lisbon - is a true revelation.
About Kalaf Epalanga
Kalaf Epalanga was born in Benguela, Angola, in 1978. Also the Whites Know to Dance is his first novel. He published the chronicles, O Angolano Que Comprou Lisboa (For Half the Price) and Love Stories for Boys of Color. He was a chronicler of the newspaper Público and Rede Angola. He writes for GQ Portugal and is a member of the band Buraka Som Sistema. He currently lives and works between Lisbon and Berlin.
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