Moza Banco has just extended the deadlines for the submission of journalistic works, within the framework of the 2nd Edition of the Moza Banco Journalism Prize, launched in December last year. He graduated in Law and in the Teaching of History and Geography, and has been a columnist in several newspapers, co-founder of the literary magazine Charrua, director of the National Institute of Books and Records (INLD) and the Secretary-General of the Mozambican Writers' Association.īa Ka Khosa is also the author of 'Orgia dos Loucos' (1990), 'Histórias de Amor e Espanto' (1993), 'Choriro' (2009), 'O Rei Mocho' (2012 – youth literature), 'Entre as Memórias Silenciadas' (2013, winner of BCI prize for the year’s best book), 'Cartas de Inhaminga' (2017) and 'Gungunhana' (2018). Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, the name in Tsonga (a southern Mozambique ethnic group) of Francisco Esaú Cossa, was born on 1 st August 1957, in Inhaminga in Sofala province. It addresses a present with past traces of a country with villages and towns destroyed during the war by armed groups. “Os Sobreviventes da Noite” is a novel that portrays the horrors of war through the voice of an appalled narrator. “Moza Banco, being an institution committed to adding value to Mozambique and Mozambicans, proudly supports this 2 nd edition of the book 'Os sobreviventes da noite' that, given the author's profile, and the literary and cultural richness which is are trademarks of the works that he has been publishing, we strongly believe that this is once again an excellent book, for the full pleasure of lovers of contemporary literature and others”, Moza Banco's Chairman of the Board of Directors João Figueiredo, said.

The book, published by the publishing house Cavalo do Mar, was presented to Moza Banco customers and employees this Thursday 16 th December at an event in Maputo, witnessed, among other prominent figures, by the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Moza Banco, João Figueiredo. This is the second edition of the prose book ' Os Sobreviventes da Noite' ( Survivors of the Night), in which the writer describes in detail and in an unusual way the historical reality of Mozambique in the post-independence period. Moza Banco is the official sponsor of the latest literary work by the Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.

Choriro by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa