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The 4th of July 2022 will be remembered as a sad and tragic day by intellectuals and the academia in northern Mozambique. On the same day, under different circumstances, two important figures in the academic world of Nampula and Cabo Delgado provinces fell silent.
These are Professor Adelino Zacarias Ivala, the father of Makua intellectuality, as he was affectionately known, and Professor Joao Paulo Macuio, the director of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the Lúrio University (UniLúrio), based in the city of Pemba, Cabo Delgado province.
Professor João Paulo Macuio, from Machanga, Sofala province, died in a road accident in the district of Chiúre, Cabo Delgado province. Another employee from the same UniLúrio faculty also lost his life in the accident.
Professor Ivala lost his life in a hospital bed, according to a note from the dean of Rovuma University (UniRovuma), in the past the northern branch of the Pedagogical University (UPN). Adelino Zacarias Ivala was the director of the institution, which he had established, for several years.
In a first reaction to Professor Adelino Zacarias Ivala’s death, UniRovuma, led by Professor Doctor Mário Jorge Brito dos Santos issued the following note.
“Dear Colleagues, Professors and CTA. It is with deep pain and consternation that we inform you of the physical disappearance of our colleague and founding Director of the UPN. Professor Doctor Adelino Zacarias Ivala was ill recently, but even so he offered his best professional services to our young Rovuma University, so we lost one of the main pillars and a precious asset of our institutional development. As the UniRovuma family is also in mourning, we ask the university community to provide solidarity and all possible support to the Ivala family, as well as to participate in all the ceremonies authorised by the family.”
In the same note, UniRovuma promises that “the historic achievements, dreams and the name of Professor Doctor Ivala will be preserved in our memories, and will be kept as a symbol of our Institution”.
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