| Title | Rua Liga Dos Comunistas |
|---|---|
| Contributor | José Cossa(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0383.18 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0383/chapters/10.11647/obp.0383.18 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | José Cossa |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2024-04-22 |
| Long abstract | This is a childhood memory produced as part of the Reconnect/Recollect project discussed in the introduction to this book. |
| Page range | pp. 77–78 |
| Print length | 2 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
José Cossa was born and raised in Maputo, Mozambique. A Global African scholar, poet, and educator who has learned the value of memories as a means to connect what seems to have passed with what is currently occurring and what seems to still need to materialize. He embraces the understanding that in African cosmologies the future is already here since the past, present, and future are interlinked, juxtaposed, and not mutually exclusive. Therefore children, youth, the elderly, the unborn, and the living dead are part of this complex interlinked, juxtaposed, and not mutually exclusive reality. Their memories and our memories of them matter and must be kept alive.