On this episode, the ladies of NYAC chat with the incredible Yovanka Perdigao (one-third of Not Another Book Podcast)about lusophone Africa, its under-representation in African literary spaces and the importance of translation of Afro-lusophone narratives.

Find Yovanka on:

Twitter- @postcolonialchi

IG- @postcolonialchild

website- https://www.yovanka.co.uk/

Referenced:

https://www.ozy.com/opinion/the-case-for-lusophone-african-literature/83117

http://afrikult.com/say-what-where-are-the-black-writers-from-portuguese-africa/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/sep/12/portugal-race

Jose Eduardo Agalusa

The ultimate tragedy by Abdulai Silá

Recommendations from Yovanka:

- Confession of the Lioness by Mia Coutu (Mozambican writer)

- Sleepwalking Land by Mia Coutu

- Malangatana (Mozambican visual artist)

- Afrohouse/kuduru (music)

- Buraka Som Sistema (band)

- Pepetela (Angolan writer)

- Good morning, comrades by Ondjaki (Angolan writer)

- Sousa Jamba (author from Angola)

- The ultimate tragedy by Abdulai Silá (author from Guinea-Bissau)

- Francisco Ferreira (poet from São Tomé e Príncipe)

- Alda Espírito Santo (poet from São Tomé e Príncipe)