Noémia de Sousa

Noémia de Sousa (1926-2002), full name Carolina Noémia Abranches de Sousa Soares, pseudonym Vera Micaia, was a Mozambican poet. She wrote in the Portuguese language. She was a poet of the Negritude movement. A large part of her poetry is part of the anti-colonial literary movement of Mozambique.

Wisdom & Quotes

• If you want to understand me

come, bend over this soul of Africa
in the black dock-worker's groans
the Chope's frenzied dances
the Changanas' rebellion
in the strange sadness which flows
from an African song, through the night.

Yusuf Idris