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On Tuesday 6 August, the amphitheatre of the Maputo Polytechnic University became the stage for the launch of the second work of the writer Narciso Matos, entitled “Mishu 1952-1975”, who adopted the pseudonym “Mussumbuluku Nhuvu”, telling and sharing the experience and testimony of the epic liberation of Mozambique.
The book is a lively discussion in a field of research whose theoretical richness is undoubted, in which, among other things, it seeks to understand the problematic, integral and contradictory themes that emerged from the long night of colonization as the product of two or more worlds. On this occasion, Mussumbuluku Nhuvu began by explaining that the reason for launching this work was to record and share with the children and grandchildren, as well as with the young and the young at heart, a page of our history, a reflection on an era that is still alive.
“After all, this is colonialism, the exclusion and denial of who we are. There was exploitation and humiliation, but we were still happy. I write about a mixed time, a confusing time, a misunderstood time, at least for me. That’s why Mishu, the rest, what’s not in the book, is in the stories, and we all have to tell these stories to become a people with a history, a tree with deep roots,” says Mussumbuluku Nhuvu.
In turn, academic and literary critic Francisco Noa, in his introduction to the work, said that Michoux’s strengths lie in the author’s clever use of a pseudonym, since the colonial system did not allow him to use one, but also in his avoidance of this, his easy appeal to emotions throughout the work, and his extreme caution in showing any kind of intimacy.
“It seems undeniable that memory ends up being a transversal theme in both works of Mussumbuluku Nhuvu (Ndangu Wa Txindi Na Mussumbuluku and Mishu), without losing sight of foundations, distant family origins, childhood, urban and suburban experiences and cultural shocks. Colonialism, with all its mechanisms at the service of conquest and subjugation, succeeded in normalizing what should not be normalized by leading Africans themselves, especially the young, into a state of alienation and structural blindness related to the precariousness of their everyday and surrounding reality, as if it were the natural order of things”, stresses Francisco Noa.
It is noteworthy that the event was also attended by the author’s family, as well as celebrities such as activists Graça Machel, Tomaz Salomão, Castigo Langa, academic Lourenço do Rosário, Almiro Lobo, etc.
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