Manuais escolares para alfabetização de adultos em Angola e a influência de Paulo Freire

Abstract

Angola was under the aegis of Portuguese colonialism until 1975, followinga 14-year war and the victory of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), inspired by Marxist-Leninist thought. The high number of illiteratesin the country concerned “comrades”of the movement. In view of this, they noticed the need to produce didactic materials forteaching reading and writing, as well as pedagogical training for literacy teachers, in accordancewith the principles of a conscientizing literacy. Therefore, the objective of this article is to analyze the adult literacy teaching manuals of Angola, specifically the Literacy Manual andtheLiteracy Guideof the collection A vitória é certa, and to observethe influences of Freirean thought in suchmaterials.These books were organized and produced in the 1960s by members and militants of the Center for African Studies (CEA) and the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), and were reissued in the years that followed, both before and after independence.The work was anchored on documental and bibliographical research, whose documentation was inventoried in theAngolanDigital Archive of the Tchiweka Documentation Association, and in the Digital Library of Memories of Africa and,of the East, the University ofAveiro, Portugal-Africa Foundation. The bibliographical study was based, essentially, on the works of Paulo Freire and political and educational historians of African countries. The analysis confirmed Freire's influences on the Angolan literacy proposal, particularlythe Literacy Guide, as material aimed at conscious and emancipatory literacy.