Two books coordinated by Ana Margarida Dias da Silva (DCV archivist), Jorge Varanda (Assistant Professor, DCV) and Helena Freitas (Full Professor, DCV) are now available in the catalogue of the University of Coimbra Press:
– O 25 de Abril de 1974 na voz dos cartoons: Uma coleção da Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) [The 25 of April 1974 in the voice of cartoons: A collection from the Angola Diamond Company (Diamang)]
As part of the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974, this work publishes 115 cartoons, caricatures, comics and drawings, both national and international, dated between April 27, 1974, and September 1st, 1975, from the collection of Clippings organised by the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola. The time frame makes it possible to observe the first graphic reactions to the Carnation Revolution and the consequent socio-political changes, the appearance of new protagonists or the emergence of others who until then had been in the shadows, and until the Hot Summer of 1975.
The names of the Portuguese cartoonists Cid, João Abel Manta, Sam, Vasco, or Zepe, together with international reference names such as French cartoonist Siné. Revisiting these cartoons 50 years later allows us to think about the satirical, humorous and polemical perspectives that these cartoons bring to events and the key players of 25 April 1974, but also about this nine art.
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– Olhares do Sul. 50 anos do 25 de Abril de 1974: 50 capas de jornais angolanos [Olhares do Sul. 50 years since the 25 of April 1974: 50 Angolan newspaper covers]
In the week following the 25 of April 1974, the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang) office in Luanda decided to gather and send newspapers to be archived by the Administration in Lisbon. The aim of this decision, stated in a confidential communication with the head office, was explicit: ‘to inform the Angolan press of the way of feeling and interpreting events related to the actions of the Armed Forces, which led to the establishment of the Junta de Salvação Nacional’. The result of this initiative is today a glimpse of ‘Views from the South’ represented by the 50 covers of Angolan newspapers - A Província de Angola, Diário de Luanda, Jornal de Angola, O Angolense, A Tribuna dos Musseques, O Comércio de Angola in the period between April 25th, 1974, and April 25th, 1975 - selected for this catalogue.
The newspaper covers illustrate the socio-political transformation of post-25 April Angola. The headlines on the front and back pages reflect last-minute political events.
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These works mark the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution through Angolan visual sources.
