‘Women Here and Now’ at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo
Niketche – A tribute to Paulina Chiziane
3:04 CAT | 6 May 2019
Niketche – A tribute to Paulina Chiziane
Date and Time: Thursday, May 9 2019 at 18h30
Entrance: 200 MZN
Address: CCBM - Centro Cultural Brasil Moçambique, Av. 25 de Setembro, no. 1728, Maputo
About the event
In a literature and musical format, with storytelling, the actors Expedito Araujo and Melanie de Vales will interpret an excerpt from the literary work Niketche, by Paulina Chiziane.
Created in theatrical language, the recital aims to tell the story both to those who do not know the work, but also to those who have read the book.
Special participation of the actor Rivaldo Munguambe.
About Niketche (The First Wife: A Tale of Polygamy)
After twenty years of marriage, Rami discovers that her husband has been living a double--or rather, a quintuple--life. Tony, a senior police officer in Maputo, has apparently been supporting four other families for many years. Rami remains calm in the face of her husband's duplicity and plots to make an honest man out of him. After Tony is forced to marry the four other women--as well as an additional lover--according to polygamist custom, the rival lovers join together to declare their voices and demand their rights. In this brilliantly funny and feverishly scathing critique, a major work from Mozambique's first published female novelist, Paulina Chiziane explores her country's traditional culture, its values and hypocrisy, and the subjection of women the world over.
About Paulina Chiziane
Paulina Chiziane is a native of Manjacaze (1955-). She attended the Linguistics course in Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) and published her first work "Balada do amor ao vento" in 1990, which represents the first novel published by a Mozambican woman.
Followed by "Ventos do Apocalipse" (1993), "O Sétimo Juramento" (2000), "Niketche: Uma história de poligamia" (2002), "O Alegre Canto da Perdiz", (2008), "As Andorinhas" (2009), "Por Quem Vibram os Tambores do Além" (2013), "Na Mão de Deus" (2013), "Ngoma Yethu: O Curandeiro e o Novo Testamento" (2015), the most recent being "O Canto dos Escravos" (2017). She was honoured with several honourable mentions, among which stands out the Prize José Craveirinha, of the Mozambican Writers' Association, in 2003.
Her writing combines tradition and originality, "in a complex and socially valued production" (T. Manjate). The dominant theme is the treatment of the role of women in society, with the conflicts of identity that derive from the presence of a diversity of religions and cultures.
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