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Brazil bestows top honour on Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa
1:52 CAT | 30 Aug 2018
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Brazil is today distinguishing Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa with the Order of Rio Branco, one of the country’s highest decorations.
The Brazilian ambassador to Mozambique will deliver the award during a ceremony at the Brazil-Mozambique Cultural Centre in Maputo, a communique from the Mozambican Writers Association (AEMO) declares.
The honour comes in recognition of Ba Ka Khosa’s 30-year literary career since the 1987 publication of Ualalapi, often cited as Mozambique’s first historical novel, which chronicles the fall of Ngungunhane, the Emperor of Gaza in southern Mozambique, who was captured by the Portuguese in 1895.
“The valuation of tradition and the grounding of the historiographical treatment of the figure of Ngungunhane, from oral data, is structurally interconnected with the presence, explicit in some cases and implicit in others, of Western literary models,” the AEMO note reads.
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, the pen name of Francisco Esau Cossa, this year published a new book on the life of the emperor entitled “Ngungunhane”, a fictional history of the women who accompanied him to exile in Portugal.
Source: Lusa
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