
Ualalapi
Fragments from the End of Empire
University of Massachusetts Press
Published on 17. October 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
104 pages
978-1-933227-73-3 (ISBN)
Description
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa first published Ualalapi: Fragments from the End of Empire in Portuguese in 1987. Named one of Africa's hundred best books of the twentieth century, it reflects on Mozambique's past and present through interconnected narratives related to the last ruler of the Gaza Empire, Ngungunhane. Defeated by the Portuguese in 1895, Ngungunhane was reclaimed for propaganda purposes by Mozambique's post-independence government as a national and nationalist hero. The regime celebrated his resistance to the colonial occupation of southern Mozambique as a precursor to the twentieth-century struggle for independence. In Ualalapi, Ungulani challenges that ideological celebration and portrays Ngungunhane as a despot, highlighting the violence and tyranny that were hallmarks of the Gaza Empire. This fresh look at the history of late nineteenth-century southeast Africa provides a prism through which to examine the machinations of those in power in Mozambique during the 1980s.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amherst
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-933227-73-3 (9781933227733)
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Persons
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (b. 1957) is Director of Mozambique's Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco. He is the author of several books, including Choriro and Entre as Memórias Silenciadas.
Richard Bartlett and Isaura De Oliveira have translated a number of books from the Portuguese, including Lília Momplé's Neighbours: The Story of a Murder.
Phillip Rothwell is King John II Professor of Portuguese at the University of Oxford and the author of A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative and A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto.
Richard Bartlett and Isaura De Oliveira have translated a number of books from the Portuguese, including Lília Momplé's Neighbours: The Story of a Murder.
Phillip Rothwell is King John II Professor of Portuguese at the University of Oxford and the author of A Canon of Empty Fathers: Paternity in Portuguese Narrative and A Postmodern Nationalist: Truth, Orality and Gender in the Work of Mia Couto.
Content
- Foreword: Lessons to Power from the Past-Phillip Rothwell
- Author's Note
- Fragments from the End (1)
- Ualalapi
- Fragments from the End (2)
- Mputa's Death
- Fragments from the End (3)
- Damboia
- Fragments from the End (4)
- A Siege or Fragments of a Siege
- Fragments from the End (5)
- Manua's Diary
- Fragments from the End (6)
- Ngungunhane's Last Speech
- Author's Note
- Fragments from the End (1)
- Ualalapi
- Fragments from the End (2)
- Mputa's Death
- Fragments from the End (3)
- Damboia
- Fragments from the End (4)
- A Siege or Fragments of a Siege
- Fragments from the End (5)
- Manua's Diary
- Fragments from the End (6)
- Ngungunhane's Last Speech