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Filomena Embaló
Filomena Araújo Embaló (born 1956) is an Angolan-born Bissau-Guinean writer. She is the first woman in Guinea-Bissau to have published a novel. Biography Filomena Embaló was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1956 to parents from Cape Verde. She moved to Guinea-Bissau as a teenager, in 1975, and became Naturalization, naturalized there. Embaló then studied economics at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, University of Reims in France. She holds a doctorate degree. The Guinea-Bissau Civil War, 1998–1999 civil war in Guinea-Bissau sent Embaló into an identity crisis, which she explores in her first novel, ''Tiara'', published in 1999. The first novel to be published by a Bissau-Guinean woman, ''Tiara'' deals with the fallout of colonialism in a fictionalized African country. It was published by the Instituto Camões in Mozambique. Embaló, who writes in Portuguese language, Portuguese, went on to publish a short story collection, ''Carta aberta'', in 2005 and a poetry col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luanda
Luanda ( ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Angola, largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking capital city in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2020 the population reached more than 8.3 million inhabitants (a third of Angola's population). Among the oldest colonial cities of Africa, Luanda was founded in January 1576 as ''São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda'' by Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais, being occasionally called "Leonda" or "St Paul de Leonda" by non-Portuguese sources. The city served as the centre of the Slavery in Angola, slave trade to Brazil before the institution was prohibited. At the start of the Angolan Civil W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
