Abdulai Sila is a writer and engineer from Guinea-Bissau. He was born on 1st of April 1958 in Catió, in the South of the country, where he finished his basic education. In 1970 he moved to the city of Bissau in order to continue his studies, and it is where he lives now. In 1985 he got his degree in electrical engineering by the Technical University of Dresden (Germany). Since then he participated in many trainings on Informatics and Communication Technologies and is the founder member of many companies in this area and one of the principal promoters of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau. Being one of the most important voices of Guinean literature, he is also a co-founder (with Teresa Montenegro and Fafali Koudwa) of the first private publishing house ...

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 ...

Mia Couto, whose real name is António Emílio Leite Couto, was born in Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique, in 1955. He moved to Lourenço Marques in 1971 to study medicine at the colonial university. After the independence, he got a degree in Biology at the Eduardo Mondlane University. He worked as a journalist with the newspaper A Tribuna and was the director of Agência de Informação de Moçambique. He ran the magazine Tempo and worked for the newspaper Notícias. His first published literary work was a collection of poems, Raiz de Orvalho (Dew's Root, 1983). Since then, he published several novels, as well as collections of short stories, chronicles and novellas. Among them, Vozes Anoitecidas (Voices Made Night, 1986); Cada Homem É uma Raça (Every Man Is a ...