Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta was born in 1857 and died in 1894. A poet, he wrote a column in the Luanda press and devoted himself to the study of Kimbundu: in 1891 he published in Lisbon a collection of Angolan proverbs in Kimbundu and Portuguese, then in 1893 an essay towards a Kimbundu-to-Portuguese dictionary. He was among the first Angolans to call for a national literature, founded on the country's language and culture, and his generation, that of the 1880s, saw the birth of a press in which Black and mixed-race authors wrote.

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• PoetryDelíriosJoaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta · 1887not translated into EnglishLiterature