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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]
Ana Lúcia Pereira Moniz (born 9 September 1976) is a Portuguese singer and actress. Moniz represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996 and has released five music albums to date. [update] She has also acted in several television shows, in theatre, and in films, most prominently in the 2003 British ensemble film Love Actually .
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 ...
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.
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.
The Guimarães Rosa Institute (Portuguese: Instituto Guimarães Rosa, abbreviated IGR) is an institution subordinated to the Brazilian diplomatic missions in each country, being the main instrument for the execution of the Brazilian cultural policy abroad. [1] [2] Formerly it was known as the Brazilian Cultural Center (Centro Cultural Brasileiro).
The native folk music of Mozambique has been highly influenced by Portuguese colonisation and local language forms. The most popular style of modern dance music is marrabenta . Mozambican music also influenced another Lusophone music in Brazil , like maxixe (its name derived from Maxixe in Mozambique), and mozambique style in Cuba and New York ...
He is the son of Portuguese emigrants who moved to the Portuguese colony in the 1950s. When he was 14 years old, some of his poetry was published in a local newspaper, Notícias da Beira. Three years later, in 1971, he moved to the capital Lourenço Marques (now Maputo) and began to study medicine at the University of Lourenço Marques.