Mozambican guitarist Clésio Jonaze, currently based in Cape Town (South Africa), has released the single "Blues for my Angels", an instrumental ballad with an authentic fusion of rock and blues. "Blues for my Angels" is a composition that explores the nuances of life, dealing with love, overcoming and the search...
US band Kool & The Gang cancels performance due to social unrest
The American band Kool & The Gang will not be performing next Saturday on the campus of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Maputo, due to the instability in the country. The group asked the producers of the event for security guarantees, but they said that the situation was far from the organization's control, a fact that...
Millennium bim exhibits its works in tribute to Mozambican artists
Millennium bim has opened its art collection to exhibit its works in order to pay tribute to Mozambican artists. Called "Between Colors and Forms: Plurality of Voices", the exhibition consists of 14 works of art on display since Thursday (17) at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center, which through it, Millennium bim also intends to...
Paulina Chiziane in Warsaw to inaugurate a professorship
Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane has been in Warsaw, Poland, since yesterday for the inauguration ceremony of a chair established in her honor for her contribution to Mozambican literature and the Portuguese language. Called the "Chair of Paulina Chiziane Studies", it is being developed by the Faculty of Modern Languages at the University of Warsaw and aims to develop studies...
South Korean writer Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2024
Yesterday, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature to 53-year-old author Han Kang, the first South Korean woman to receive this prestigious award. The academy justified its choice, saying that she deserved the prize for "her intense poetic prose that confronts trauma and exposes the fragility of...
"Women's Turn" trains young authors in narrative writing
Nineteen female authors will take part in the writing workshop "A Vez das Mulheres", promoted by the Mozambican authors' platform Catalogus, in partnership with the Spanish Embassy in Mozambique and with the support of the Guimarães Rosa Institute, on September 23, 24, 26 and 27, from 4pm to 6pm. "Women's turn" has...
Jazz, Pop & Rock at the second Maputo Global Concert
Jazz, Pop & Rock is the musical proposal for the second edition of the Maputo Global Concert, which will take place on Tuesday, September 24 at the Maputo Port Gallery, promising a vibrant evening of global music. The event will feature the special participation of American saxophonist Paul Nicholas Roth, a professor at the University of...
Dilon Ndjindji's funeral scheduled for Saturday
The funeral ceremonies for Mozambican musician Dilon Ndjindji will be held on Saturday in the town of Marracuene, his hometown, according to a family source. Ndjindji lost his life at the age of 97 to illness at dawn yesterday, Wednesday (18), in Maputo, the victim of a lung infection. The musician leaves behind an important musical legacy that...
Adelino Luís wins second edition of the Mia Couto literary prize
Mozambican writer, Adelino Albano Luís, was awarded last Thursday (12), as the big winner of the 2nd edition of the Mia Couto Literary Prize, in the prose category. For the prize he received a check for 400,000 meticais from Mia Couto and the Managing Director of Cornelder Mozambique, Jan de Vries, at a ceremony held...
Puppet Theater: Jofredino Faife's book to be launched this week at Camões
On September 12, at 5:30 p.m., the Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo will host the launch of the book Teatro de Marionetes (ou Ensaio sobre a Mecânica Descritiva da Desertificação dos Homens), by Jofredino Faife, published by Imprensa Nacional (Portugal), as a result of his distinction in the 6th edition of the IN/Eugénio Lisboa...