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...
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...
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...
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...
Mozambican writer Mia Couto unanimously won the FIL (Guadalajara International Book Fair) Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2024 yesterday, the jury announced at a press conference in Mexico. Mia Couto was chosen from 49 authors from 20 countries who write in six languages: Catalan, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian....
The book "Crónicas Eleitorais e Direitos Humanos em Moçambique" (Electoral Chronicles and Human Rights in Mozambique) is a collection of ten texts that deal with the electoral scenario in the country, highlighting the human rights violations carried out, for the most part, by the police during the polls. The digital book, to be launched next Wednesday (04) in Maputo by the Bloco 4 Foundation, is...
Mozambican musician DeHermes won two music awards last week at the Shinning Star Africa Awards gala, which took place in Sandton, South Africa. The rising youngster's triumph on the Mozambican music scene was for his song "Aritimoh", in the categories of Breakthrough Artist of the...
The second series of the Classical Music Season 2024 kicks off tomorrow and will continue on the 17th, 18th and 22nd of this month, in Maputo City, at the Mozambique-China Cultural Center, Montebelo Indy Congress Hotel and the National Library of Mozambique. In this second edition, Xiquitsi will be joined by the Matosinhos String Quartet,...
Following the closing ceremony of the 10th edition of FIKANI, the exhibitors' awards followed. In this section, the main highlight was the province of Cabo Delgado, which won the highest award: Best FIKANI Stand 2024, and also the award for Best Exhibiting Province. A team of judges assessed various requirements such as...
Francisco Panguana Júnior, a university lecturer, is the winner of the sixth edition of the Fernando Leite Couto Literary Prize. With a degree in Portuguese Language Teaching from the Pedagogical University of Maputo, Francisco Panguana Júnior won the prize with his original "Os peregrinos da sobrevivência" (The pilgrims of survival), from among 68 proposals submitted for the prize, 19 women and 49 men from all over the world....