Autobiography of luis bernardo honwana

Luís Bernardo Honwana was born in 1942 in Lourenço Marques (actually Maputo), Mozambique.

Autobiography of luis bernardo honwana biography

He studied law in Portugal. Back in 1964 he became a militant to liberate Mozambique from Portuguese colonial rule. He was incarcerated for three years.
In 1975 he was appointed director of President’s office. Later in 1981, he became Secretary of State for culture.

He served on the Executive Board of UNESCO from 1987 to 1991.
Honwana is the author of a single book, ‘Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso’ (1964), ‘We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories’ in English.

A historical narrative facing the memory retracted by the colonizers.
And the tale ‘Hands of the Blacks‘ [‘As mãos dos pretos‘] is published in a collection of short stories ‘Contos Africanos dos países de língua portuguesa‘ set in the Portugese colonial era at the turn of the ’60.

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[publisher in RN 05 in June 1992, original text in portuguese.]

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