Noito is a woman from the south of the margins. To fl ee from the civil war in Angola, she brings to the island of Mussulo, with her orality and life, culture, traditions and the ecology of many other knowledges. It is also about her identity as an African and Angolan woman. A work of post-coloniality, enunciation of spaces and times of Africa which gives a sociological account of the fi rst 22 years of independence of Angola. It remains a contemporary work of literature.

ORAL LITERATURE AS A MARK OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY, COMBAT AND HYBRIDIZATION IN IBEROPHONE GEOGRAPHIES – THE ANGOLAN WRITER MANUEL RUI: A CASE STUDY The 15th century opened up “new” worlds to Portugal and Spain and saw the start of colonialism, which became global from the 17th century onwards. With Enlightenment, one can find the foundations of Eurocentric modernity that gave rise to the dark side of capitalism and imperialism: Europeans brought millions of slaves from Africa to carry out the construction of America and cultural epistemicide caused unnamable losses on both continents. The orature (oral literature) is a weapon used nowadays by the former colonized peoples of Latin America and Africa for the rescue and strengthening of cultures and traditions. In Angola, the writer Manuel Rui is a model in that ability to retransform the literary text.

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