Lina Magaia

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Lina Magaia (* 1940 in Lourenço Marques , Portuguese East Africa ; † June 27, 2011 in Mozambique ) was a Mozambican writer , journalist and resistance fighter during the Mozambican liberation struggle .

Life

Education and career

Lina Magaia was born in Lourenço Marques, the capital of the Portuguese colony of Mozambique, in 1940 . During her school days, she began to get involved in the Mozambican liberation movement and was imprisoned for three months for her political activities.

She was considered one of the first Mozambicans to receive a scholarship to study abroad. She then studied at the University of Lisbon . She later moved to Tanzania , where the headquarters of the Mozambican Liberation Front was located, and received military training there.

In 1980 it was part of the so-called "Zona Verde" program of the OMM , which was supposed to maintain the food supply in urban areas. Two years later she was appointed deputy head of the Maragra state sugar plantation in Manhiça ( Maputo province ). In 1986 Magaia became head of the agricultural development department of Manhiça District.

Writing activity

Affected by the Mozambican civil war , she published her first work Dumba Nengue in 1987 and her second work Duplo massacre en Moçambique in 1989 . Both works are eyewitness accounts of the events of the civil war and report on the suffering and horrors of violence in Mozambique.

In 1994 Magaia published her third book Delehta. In 2011 she published a collection of interviews with Marta Mbocota Guebuza, mother of former President Armando Guebuza .

death

Magaia died in Maputo on June 27, 2011 at the age of 71 after suffering serious heart problems.

Works

  • Dumba Nengue: Historias Trágicas do Banditismo (1987).
    • (English) Dumba Nengue: Run for Your Life. Peasant Tales of Tragedy in Mozambique. Africa World Press, Inc .; Trenton, New Jersey, 1988, ISBN 0-86543-073-X
  • Duplo massacre en Mozambique: Histórias trágicas do banditismo - II (1989)
  • Delehta: Pulos na vida (1994)
  • A cobra dos olhos verde (1997)
  • Memories of Grandma Marta (2011)

reception

Lina Magaia was included in the Daughters of Africa anthology published in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margaret Busby (Ed.): Daughters of Africa , Jonathan Cape, 1992, pp. 639-40.
  2. ↑ "A Mozambican journalist Speaks Out; Lina Magaia" , American Friends Service Committee, Seattle, Washington, January 1988th
  3. ^ A b c Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong , Henry Louis Gates (eds), "Magaia, Lina" , in Dictionary of African Biography, Volume 6 , Oxford University Press Inc., 2012, p. 26th
  4. ↑ Mozambique: Lina Magaia Dies . In: Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique (Maputo) . June 29, 2011 ( allafrica.com [accessed September 17, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Magaia, Lina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mozambican writer, journalist and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lourenço Marques , Portuguese East Africa
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 2011
Place of death Mozambique