"La comparsa" (the companion) is the title of the most recent work by the Mozambican writer Amilca Ismael. It is the fourth work, recently released in Italy, where the writer lives since 1986. According to the writer, the novel has as inspiration what certain women feel in their relationships, "when their husbands are distant...
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Unemployed becomes world popular on Tik tok
Khabane Lame, 21 years old, was working in the construction industry in Italy, before the cursed pandemic came and took away his job. With unemployment, he was forced to reinvent himself and today he has the most popular Tik Tok account in the world, with 115.4 million followers. No more than almost twice the population of the world...
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Mozambican photographer awarded in Germany
The documentary photography specialist, Mario Macilau, was awarded in the area of photography by Claussee 36, a prestigious German cultural institution of recognized merit in various artistic fields. The award will allow him to develop, next year, an artistic-photographic project involving the cities of Maputo and Berlin. Mário Macilau was born in Maputo,...
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Journalists Win 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, whose work does not cheer the Philippine and Russian governments, received the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize this Friday, which the committee said is an endorsement of freedom of speech rights under threat worldwide. Ressa, who has faced lawsuits for years in the Philippines over...
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Daniel "007" Craig gets star on the Walk of Fame
Actor Daniel Craig received a star on the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in the United States of America this Wednesday. This occurred two days before the US premiere of his last film as James Bond "Agent 007". The actor showed himself happy to be immortalized among the Hollywood heavyweights. "I never thought I would come ...
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Mia Couto misses out on Nobel Prize in Literature. Prize falls to Tanzanian author
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tanzanian novelist is the grand winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. The announcement was made this Thursday afternoon at a press conference broadcast online. The author born on the island of Zanzibar was thus awarded this year's literary prize for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration into the effects of colonialism and...
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Russians successfully take off to shoot a movie... in space
The Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft has successfully lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome towards the International Space Station to shoot the first film in space. The crew consists of the film crew of the Vyzor project: director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said,...
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YouTube deletes official R. Kelly channels
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube said Monday that it has deleted the official channels of R&B singer R. Kelly from its video platform. It is therefore intended to mark a distancing between the platform and the singer due to his conviction for sex trafficking last month. "We can confirm that we have closed two channels linked to R....
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Zeca Afonso's song is the new anthem of La Casa de Papel
Portuguese singer, Zeca Afonso's song, Grândola Vila Morena, is part of the fifth season of the Netflix series La Casa de Papel. The anthem of the Carnation Revolution (April 25, 1974) appears reinterpreted by Cecilia Krull, the same one who sings the main song of the series "My Life is Going On". Zeca Afonso recorded...
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October 6, 2021June 21st, 2024Living
Mozambican writer attends African Book Fair in Paris
The Mozambican writer Agnaldo Bata participated, from September 24 to 26, in the first edition of the African Book Fair, in Paris, France. Bata took to the city of the Eiffel tower the novel "Sonhos Manchados, Sonhos Vividos" (Stained Dreams, Lived Dreams). "It went very well. It was something I didn't expect. There were a lot of people interested in the literature made by the...