MATOA, Batuque Fever – Helde Muteia

MATOA – BATUQUE FEVER

The book addresses one of the deepest and darkest realities of Lower Zambezi, where life pulses at a pace that is not noticeable for those who do not know the language of the Baptists. Thus, the apparent calm that fills daily life, in a quiet village called Miguerrine, hides an incessant search for balance between material life and another dimension of life inhabited by ancestors.

When you least expect it, there's a spiritual storm that people have convinced to call « Matoa, batuque fever ». It is not a fever within the common meaning of the term. It's an emotional state that transcends the human condition. It is a collective discomfort unpredictable and without borders. Magic happens when it comes mixed with a story of pure and natural love. Everything stops having a logical explanation. Everything has to be lived to be understood.