issues concerning race, class, and politics. Both men and women were involved in this revolutionary literary movement. The three major journals in support of and associated with Moçambicanidade were, O Brado Africano, Itinerário, and Msabo. Noémia de Sousa was regularly published in O Brado Africano, and from 1949 she organized, directed, and edited the women's columns until she left for Portugal in 1951. During de Sousa's time at O Brado Africano, she focused the conversation on African identity, black pride, and indigenous feminism. She often published her work under the name, Vera Micaia. Works Sangue Negro, Maputo: Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 2001. "If You Want to Know Me" - this poem appears in many anthologies, including in Margaret Dickinson (ed.), When Bullets Begin to Flower, and Margaret Busby (ed.), Daughters of Africa (1992). References External links Noémia de Sousa. Plural Editores, Mosambik Poesia Africana 1926 births 2002 deaths People from Maputo Province Mozambican poets Mozambican people of Portuguese descent Mozambican Roman Catholics Colonial people in Mozambique Mozambican women writers 20th-century women writers Mozambican women poets 20th-century poets