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Ângela Ferreira was born in Maputo, formerly Lourenço Marques, in Portuguese Mozambique in 1958 and lived and studied in Cape Town during the apartheid era. She graduated in sculpture and also obtained a master's degree in fine arts (MFA) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art of the University of Cape Town.
Mutola was born in 1972 in the poor shanty town of Chamanculo on the outskirts of Maputo, then known as Lourenço Marques, the capital of Portuguese Mozambique. [1] Her father was employed by the railways and her mother was a market vendor. As a young girl she excelled in football. She played with boys, as there were no leagues or teams for girls.
The 2024 COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship (Portuguese: Campeonato Feminino Sub-17 COSAFA Moçambique 2024) is the fifth edition of the COSAFA U-17 Girls' Championship, the international women's youth football championship contested by the under-17 national teams of the member associations of COSAFA. It was initially scheduled to be hosted by ...
According to the 1997 census, [2] 40% of the population of Mozambique spoke Portuguese. 9% spoke it at home, and 6.5% considered Portuguese to be their mother tongue. According to the general population survey taken in 2017, Portuguese is now spoken natively by 16.6% of the population aged 5 and older (or 3,686,890) and by one in every five people aged 15 t
Alexandra Cunha was born in 1962 in Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques) in the then Portuguese Mozambique.Returning with her family to Portugal after the fall of the Estado Novo regime, she studied at a high school in Portimão on the Algarve coast, which is where she developed her interest in the sea and nature conservation.
Bertina Lopes (July 11, 1924 – February 10, 2012) [1] was a Mozambican-born, Italian painter and sculptor. Lopes' work displays a deep African sensibility with saturated colours and bold compositions of mask-like figures and geometric forms. [2]
The English translation was made not long after by Guedes' British wife, Dorothy Guedes. The cover and inside illustration of the English edition was made by Pedro Guedes, their teenage son. [5] [6] It was first published in Africa and was quickly banned by the Portuguese authorities. [7] It was a long time before the book was published in ...
She was featured in the 1984 documentary Maputo Mulher. [2] In 1986, Paco was one of the founders of the Mutumbela Gogo troupe, the first professional theater troupe in Mozambique which is still ongoing today. She was influenced by the many Soviet films that she watched, and created short plays about what it was like to be Mozambican.