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The Camões Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo and the Portuguese language centres of the Pedagogical and Eduardo Mondlane universities in Maputo are promoting a series of conversations featuring Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, Joaquim Furtado, João Paulo Borges Coelho, and Luís Loforte, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of April 25th, 1974.
The date represents a turning point in the history of Portugal and Portuguese-speaking African countries, a moment when, 50 years ago, resistance to oppression delivered individual and collective freedom.
Throughout April, a series of conversations and other activities themed “Memories of April 25th, 1974” will be held, against the backdrop of the exhibition “50 Steps to Freedom – Portugal, from Dictatorship to April 25th,” at the CCP Maputo gallery until June 1st.
The guests of the conversation series are personalities from the world of literature, journalism, and history who experienced April 25th and will share their experiences and reflections from different perspectives.
The initiative also aims to remember the life and work of Leite de Vasconcelos, a Mozambican journalist and writer who, at 12:20 am on April 25th, 1974, broadcast the song “Grândola, Vila Morena” by Zeca Afonso on the Limite program of Rádio Renascença in Portugal, the signal awaited by the military to begin the operations that would end the dictatorial regime in Portugal.
Portuguese journalist Joaquim Furtado, one of the guests of this series, read the first statement of the Armed Forces Movement on Rádio Clube Português, also in the early hours of April 25th, 1974.
During this series – taking place on the 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th of this month – the film “April Captains” by Maria de Medeiros will also be screened, as an audio-visual document of the events of that day.
The session with Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa and Joaquim Furtado, moderated by Eduardo Quive, will took place at the Camões gallery this Thursday (04-04) at 6:00 pm. The session with João Paulo Borges Coelho and Luís Loforte, also moderated by Eduardo Quive, will be held on April 11th at 6:00 pm, also at the CCP gallery.
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