By: Paula .O.M Otukile
Beni Dya Mbaxi, a pseudonym for Bernardo Sebastião Afonso, is a young Angolan writer, activist and columnist who lives in Luanda, in the municipality of Cazenga, in Angola. He has published eight books, three of them in Brazil with the Cintra publishing house in São Paulo, namely “A Última Masoxi, A Menina da Burca and Katanha”.
To say that the young Angolan writer has already been gaining prominence in several Brazilian academies, namely universities, public and public schools. Earlier this year, he was an international guest at the Federal University of Western Bahia, during Integration Week, and in 2019, he saw his book “A Menina da Burca” (The Girl in the Burka) reach the students of the Emília Rochamant school in Rio de Janeiro, and now he has seen his books reach and be studied at the Nave school in Rio de Janeiro.
On Wednesday 21 August, the Brazilian professor Renata Barcellos, who holds a post-doctorate in Literature and Literatures, took her students through African literature, and the writer Beni Dya Mbaxi has been instrumental in studying the current situation of contemporary African women.
It should be noted that the young writer Beni Dya Mbaxi has just released a documentary film together with another young Angolan, Zacarias Muambongue, entitled “DREAMS OF THE MUSSEQUE”, which was also shown in the classrooms of the Nave RJ school.
Beni Dya Mbaxi is a columnist for various communications portals in Angola and abroad.