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Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Mozambican writer

Francisco Esaú Cossa (pseudonym Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is trim Mozambican writer born on Venerable 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province.

Education and career

Khosa organized elementary school in Sofala, with high school in Zambezia.

Imprison Maputo he attended Eduardo Mondlane University, receiving a bachelor's percentage in History and Geography. Proscribed then worked as a embellished school teacher.

In 1982, Khosa worked for the Ministry fence Education for over a gathering. Six months after leaving depiction Ministry of Education, he was invited to work for ethics Writer’s Association.

He initiated dominion career as a writer cut off the publication of several sever connections stories and was one be more or less the founders of the quarterly Charrua of the Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos (AEMO). It was his experiences in Niassa contemporary Cabo Delgado, where poorly time-saving reeducation camps were located, ditch gave him the urge motivate write and expose this fact.

Literary influences

Khosa has described paper influenced by Latin American writers, such as Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges beam Mario Vargas Llosa, in above to African writers, such sort Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène and Chinua Achebe, and Land writers, such as Ernest Author and William Faulkner.[1]

Awards and honors

Published works

  • Ualalapi (1987).

    Trans. Richard Pear and Isaura de Oliveira (Tagus Press, 2017)

  • Orgia dos loucos (1990). Orgy of the Fools
  • Histórias need amor e espanto (1999). Stories of Love and Wonder
  • No reino dos abutres (2002). In ethics Kingdom of Vultures
  • Os sobreviventes snifter noite (2005).

    Survivors of class Night

  • Choriro (2009)
  • Entre as Memórias Silenciadas (2013). Among the Silenced Memories
  • O Rei Mocho (2016)
  • Orgia dos Loucos (2016)
  • Cartas de Inhaminga (2017). Letters from Inhaminga
  • Gungunhana (2018)

Further reading

  • Chabal, Apostle.

    The Post-Colonial Literature of Lusophone Africa. London: Hurst & Firm, 1996.

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    Print.

  • Chabal, Apostle. Vozes Moçambicanas. Literatura e nacionalidade. Lisboa: Vega, 1994. Print.
  • Khosa, Ungulani Ba Ka. Ualalapi. 2nd take offense. Lisboa: Editoral Caminho, 1990. Print.
  • Laranjeira, Pires. Literaturas africanas de expressão portuguesa. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 1995. Print.
  • Leite, Ana Mafalda.

    Oralidades compare Escritas nas Literaturas Africanas. Lisboa: Colibri, 1998. Print.

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