Tony Tcheka (António Soares Lopes Júnior) born on 21st of December 1951 in Bissau is a Guinean journalist and writer, considered to be one of the most important names of Guinean literature. He is one of the founder members of National Union of Artists and Writers of Guinea-Bissau and his poems were published in many anthologies in Guinea, Brazil and Europe. As a journalist he worked for the RDN – National Radio of Guinea-Bissau, was editor-in-chief of a newspaper “Nô Pintcha” and a founder of its cultural and literary supplement “Bantabá”. As an analyst and correspondent Tcheka collaborated with BBC, Voz da América, Voz da Alemanha, Tanjug, and in Portugal, with Público, press agency ANOP, RTP-África and TSF. He published two books of poems: Noites de Insónia na Terra Adormecida (Nights ...

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 ...

Ângelo (Aíto) de Jesus Bonfim is a lawyer, with a degree in Law by the Lisbon Classical University in 1982. In Portugal he also obtained a judicial training at the Centre for Judicial Studies in Lisbon. Currently, he works as a lawyer in São Tomé and in the period of 2001 to 2011 he was the legal counselor of the President of the Republic Fradique de Menezes. In this capacity, he participated in the negotiations related to the perspectives of oil extraction. As a writer, Aíto Bonfim published plays, prose and poetry, openly assuming that the main theme of his work is the criticism of the African political power in the post-independence period. His play Berlinização ou partilha de África was banned by the regime of one-party state at the ...