"The history they show us in books is something else; what we are going to present is between formal history and cultural history," Chiziane stressed at a press conference.
The play is based on the work of poetry "The Song of the Slaves", written six years ago by Paulina Chiziane.
Still, it took a long time to be transformed into material for an opera due to resistance to seeing a connection with classical music.
The writer also argued that the work is a way to demystify the taboo that Africa has no opera.
"All peoples, for me, have their opera . . .
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