IN SEARCH FOR THE AFRICAN SOUL
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“In search for the African soul” is the result of reading a short fictional narrative, Ualalapi, written by the Mozambican writer, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, and whose theme refers to the historical fact of the agonizing signs of decay of the Gaza Empire, in the South of Mozambique, at the end of the 19th century, in the figure of its last Emperor, Gungunhana. The text presents us with three premonitory and dreamlike scenarios - the dreams by Ualalapi’s wife, Maguiguane and Manua - as announcers of chaos and a dystopian ending. Ualalapi reading represents that as an “end point” that I tried to put in an attempt to try to understand, through mythic narratives, what I called, in my research, the soul or the soulful expression of the Machangana and Maronga ethnic groups.
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