José Luandino Vieira

Portrays the cruelty of white "justice" and the courage of African men and women in preindependent Angola. It is the story of a tractor driver with nationalist sympathies who is arrested, tortured and murdered by the colonial police.

The Real Life of Domingos Xavier

Marion

'My fellow Angolans. A brother has come to say that they have killed our comrade. He was called Domingos Xavier and he was a tractor driver. He never harmed anyone, only wanted the good of his people and of his land. I stopped this dance only to say this, not for it to end, for our joy is great: our brother carried himself like a man, he did not tell the secrets of his people, he did not sell himself. We are not going to weep any more for his death because, Domingos Antonio Xavier, you begin today your real life in the hearts of the Angolan people. ..

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