Obra Oin-oin Kona-ba Timor-Leste

By Antero Benedito da Silva Ilustrasi: http://camalees.wordpress.com Amilcar Lopes Cabral (1924-1973) founded the Partido Africana da Independencia da Guinee e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) in 1956, and remained the head of the Party until he was tragically shot dead by Kani Inocencio, a corrupted former PAIGC comrade, in Conakry, 20 January 1973 (Chilcote 1999:xxxi). This study examines Amilcar Cabral as both a political leader and as a popular educator, and his influence on the Timorese struggle for independence. Paulo Freire, acknowledged as the leading figure in popular education in the 20th century, once commented that for Cabral, words are always in dialectical unity between action and reflection, theory and practice‘ (cited Davidson 1979:35). George Aditjondro, a left intellectual in Indonesia, has argued that the theory and praxis of Cabral and his independence movement became a primary source of inspiration for FRETILIN. In particular, Adjitondro argues that the establis...

  Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb [1] The objective of this paper is to examine the production of literary accounts by Timorese authors about justice and injustice in Timor-Leste since independence. The sources for this study include poems and short stories published in Tetum, Indonesian and Portuguese in one of the local newspapers, Timor Post , material from poetry readings held in Timor-Leste and interviews with the authors. Following a brief introduction to the literary arts of Timor-Leste we will examine a selection of contemporary poems that exemplify prevalent motifs in Timor-Leste‘s literature. These poems demonstrate the ways in which the theme of justice is developing to replace the theme of independence that dominated Timorese literature written prior to 1999. I will argue that this contemporary body of literature exercises a hidden, informal kind of accountability, or an aesthetics of accountability,‘ that is entwined with the formal pursuits of the transitional justice ...