João Paulo Borges Coelho, Mozambican historian and writer, was born in Oporto (Portugal) in 1955 from a Portuguese father and a Mozambican mother. When he was a few months old, his family moved to Mozambique. João Paulo Borges Coelho grew up in Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique, and later moved to the capital to study History at the Eduardo Mondlane University. In 1993, he was awarded a PhD in Social and Economic History by the University of Bradford (United Kingdom). The title of his thesis is “Protected Villages and Communal Villages in the Mozambican Province of Tete (1968-1982): A History of State Resettlement Policies, Development and War”. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of History at the Eduardo Mondlane University where he teaches courses on ...

Luís Carlos Patraquim, poet, journalist, literary critic and cinema screenwriter, was born in 1953 in Lourenço Marques, where he attended the primary and the secondary school. At the age of 16, he started to collaborate in the youth column of the newspaper Notícias and later he worked with the magazine A Voz de Moçambique. In 1973, Patraquim moved to Sweden where he was granted the status of political refugee. He returned to Mozambique in the beginning of 1975, where he started to work for the newspaper A Tribuna. In the field of cinema, he participated in the creation of National Institute of Cinema and was editor of the newsreel project Kuxa Kanema. In 1980, he joined the staff of the Agency of Information of Mozambique. In the same year, he ...

Marcelo Panguana, Mozambican writer and journalist, was born on 30th of March 1951 in colonial Lourenço Marques (nowadays Maputo). In 1971 he entered the university but his Chemistry studies were interrupted because of the war. Only after the independence, in 1976, did he resume higher education studies, now in the field of oil refining. He started his literary career writing poetry and collaborating in the cultural pages of newspapers and magazines such as “Domingo”, “Notícias” and “Tempo”, among others. In the beginning of the 90s, he created and ran “Xipalapala”, a successful literary supplement of “Notícias”. In the 80s, he joined the AEMO – Association of Mozambican Writers – and became a very active member. Not only did he occupy different positions in the AEMO's management and assembly during ...