NGUNGA'S ADVENTURES AND THE ROLE OF TRAVEL IN DE(S)COLONIZING HIS AWARENESS

Abstract

The Adventures of Ngunga (1972), by angolan writer Pepetela, tells the story of an orphan boy who becomes a man while traveling through the kimbos of an Angola in the throes of an anti-colonial war. The narrative follows the physical displacement of a child insofar as it also reveals him as a protagonist who makes the road he travels the space for the exercise of a nomadic thought of an immanent nature, which enables him to form a free conscience. The adventures take place precisely on his journey, and as he travels he realizes the importance of undertaking his own thinking. In this article, I propose looking at Ngunga as a character capable of aestheticizing his own existence by promoting a guerrilla war of thought against its hegemony, capable of applying Deleuzian nomadology as a resource for decolonizing himself and freeing his conscience, as Franz Fanon wanted.