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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Power, Poets and the People: Mozambican Voices Interpreting History |
Authors: | Penvenne, Jeanne Marie Sitoe, Bento |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Social Dynamics |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | Summer |
Pages: | 55-86 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mozambique |
Subjects: | praise poetry historiography oral history Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration colonialism |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02533950008458695 |
Abstract: | A historian (Penvenne) and a linguist (Sitoe) present the oral performance of a Mozambican poet, a man who introduced himself as Fabião of Magude Maolela. His performance, recorded in Maputo in July 1977, just six months after Mozambique's ruling party, Frelimo, proclaimed itself a Marxist Leninist Vanguard Party, exemplifies the creativity and complexity of Tsonga language oral poetry. Fabião's performance is a compelling interpretation of Mozambican history. It provides insight into critical junctures and transitions from conquest to colonialism, from colonialism to independence, and even signals the then barely perceived threat of Mozambique's dissolution into civil war. Bibliogr., notes. [ASC Leiden abstract] |