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Imagining a new world Imagining a new world
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Articulated anticolonialism Articulated anticolonialism
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‘Things I had never dreamed’ ‘Things I had never dreamed’
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Thank you for the poem […] Send more when you can. We need to share poetry freely between ourselves […] I firmly believe that it is through Poetry that everything will begin.
(Agradeço o poema […] Quando puder mande mais pois acho necessária a divulgação larga entre nós da poesia […] creio firmemente que é pela Poesia que tudo vai começar)
António Jacinto1
Letter from António Jacinto to Mário Pinto de Andrade, Luanda, 1 February 1952.
Imagining a new world
In the early 1950s, Mário Pinto de Andrade often visited a bookshop in Lisbon to receive clandestine editions of Présence Africaine, a Paris-based journal of African writing. Andrade, an undergraduate student of Classical Philology at the University of Lisbon, had recently arrived in Portugal on a scholarship from Angola. The Estado Novo were in power.2 To receive foreign publications in a climate of fascist autocracy was fraught, particularly for black people, and particularly if those publications were seen as politically subversive. In 1951, when Andrade started reading Présence Africaine, launched in 1947 by the Senegalese intellectual Alioune Diop, the journal had not yet become an explicitly anticolonial publication: they did not declare their anticolonial position until 1955. But a platform for ‘African presence’, as the journal’s title put it, was of course politically charged in the racially stratified European metropoles of the post-war period.
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