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Sousa Jamba

b. 1966

Angolan writer

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Born 1966. Sousa Jamba is an Angolan writer and journalist.

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

Biography Sousa Jamba was born in 1966 in Dondi, Huambo, in central Angola. His family were all supporters of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), before going to England. Jamba has said: "There was a sense that if you were from Unita you either had to leave the country or go out into the bush, which is precisely what my family did."

Jamba's books include Patriots (1992), an autobiographical work of fiction 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." Jamba's second novel, A Lonely Devil, was published in 1993. He has written widely for newspapers and journals, among them Granta, The Spectator and the New Statesman. 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.

Jamba is a contributor to the 2005 book The Silver Throat of the Moon: Writing in Exile, edited by Jennifer Langer.

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Angolan writer

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Sousa Jamba was born on 9 January 1966.

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Sousa Jamba is a writer and journalist.

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