1 Through these literatures, a language of oppression and colonialism transformed into a language of emancipation, writing the cultural difference that would engender the political independence of nations. African literatures, particularly those expressed in the languages of the former colonizers, arose to expose and denounce the inequality underpinning the colonial system. Finally, I argue that a struggle for terrain and citizenship-in the conquest of space by colonizers and the reconquest of lost places by the colonized-draws the lines of that inequality. In particular, I draw on the literary images and descriptions of the cities to demonstrate a design of inequality that their urbanism determines.
In this article, I provide an overview of literary portrayals of the cities of Luanda and Maputo over the course of their histories from the colonial period to the post-independence era.
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