Portuguese Demons
Notebook of Colonial Memories - a love letter to a racist father; exorcising Portuguese demons. It's a new book of Isabela Figueiredo based on the posts of her blog.
Taken from Jugular:
It is a sweet and brutal picture, brutally sweet, written almost as a betrayal. To call her father racist, to take the racism of the settlers, the Portuguese, the Mozambican white, the "system". This is something that ensures furious controversy. A world which belongs Isabela since 2005 (with the blog Perfect World, now replaced by the New World) and where she began her purges - a purge that these memories admittedly are - the unpleasant reactions were swift. "It is normal", Isabela said, She sees the massacres in September 1974 - in which she didn't die by chance - as "a fair retribution". In the country in which one could run over a black man and not go to prison.
