Sousa Jamba

Sousa Jamba (born 9 January 1966)[1] is an Angolan author and journalist.

Biography

Sousa Jamba was born in 1966 in Dondi, Huambo, in central Angola. Fleeing the violence following Angola’s independence, Jamba in 1975 went to Zambia where he lived as a refugee.[2] In 1985 he returned to Angola, and worked as a reporter and translator for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) News Agency.[2] In 1986, he went to study in Britain on a journalism scholarship, and soon began writing for The Spectator.[2] From 1988 to 1991 he studied for a BA degree in Media Studies at Westminster University, London.[1] He also has a Masters degree in Leadership and Strategic Communications from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He returned to his home country after 27 years of exile.[3]

Jamba's books include Patriots (1992), an autobiographical novel that received much critical acclaim. Andrew McKie of The Telegraph writes of it: "Sousa Jamba's brilliant and terrifying (and often very funny) novel Patriots gives an account of a child's view of the war in Angola."[4] Jamba's second novel, A Lonely Devil, was published in 1993. He has written widely for newspapers and journals, among them The Spectator and the New Statesman.[1][5] He writes a weekly column for the Angolan newspaper Semanario Angolense. He also writes a column on leadership for the business magazine Exame. He currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Who's Who - Angola: Sousa Jamba", Africa Confidential.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Sean Rogers, "Sousa Jamba", The Literary Encyclopedia, 18 February 2009.
  3. ↑ "Author Jamba's emotional homecoming", BBC News, 6 January 2004.
  4. ↑ Andrew McKie, "Too young to die", The Telegraph, 6 November 2007.
  5. ↑ Sousa Jamba page at New Statesman.