Bio

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I'm a writer and musician born in Benguela, Angola, in 1978, currently based in Berlin. Some people got to know me as part of the Europe Music Award-winning band, Buraka Som Sistema (on hiatus since 2016). other through the columns, I wrote for the Portuguese newspaper O Público, GQ Magazine (Portugal), the independent Angolan online magazine REDE Angola and the Brazilian literary magazine Quatro Cinco Um.

I released two collections of literary chronicles in Portugal and Angola' Estórias de Amor para Meninos de Cor' <Love Stories for Colored Kids> and 'O Angolano que Comprou Lisboa (Por Metade do Preço)' <The Angolan who Bought Lisbon (at Half the Price) >. 'Também os Brancos Sabem Dançar' <Whites Can Dance Too>, my debut novel will be translated to English by Daniel Hahn and published by Faber in spring 2023.