Part traditional fable, part thriller, Tchanaze is a tale of magic and witchcraft, but also a portrayal of a world where traditions are preyed upon and superstitions exploited to hide evil, yet all-too-human truths. Tchanaze is the pride of Sena, a virgin and a beauty coveted throughout the Zambeze region. Mbemba is deemed ugly in comparison and fears she will never find a husband. Her mother employs a witchdoctor to expel the evil spirits from Mbema and put them in Tchanaze, who subsequently dies. But word reaches Campira, a shaman from Sena, that Tchanaze is alive and living in a village further up the valley. He takes Thomossene and Suplera, Tchanaze's parents, on a mission to rescue their daughter and liberate her from the curse. But to do this they must rely on the fearsome satanic witchdoctor, Phanga. AUTHOR: Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque was born in 1963 in Inhamiga, Mozambique. He has worked as a lawyer, a social sciences researcher and a journalist. He has three novels to his name: Tchanaze, a donzela de Sena (Tchanaze, 2009), N'tsai Tchassassa, a virgem de missangas (N'tsai Tchassassa, Virgin of the Beads, 2013), Carota N'tchakatcha, feitiços e mitos (Carota N'tchakatcha, Spells and Myths, 2018). He has also written a collection of poems, A Gestação do Luar (The Moon's Gestation, 1991). He is the current Secretary General of the Association of Mozambican Writers.
