Um brasileiro, um angolano e uma gramática do quimbundo: os elementos gramaticais da língua nbundu, edição do exemplar da Biblioteca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

In 1858, Saturnino de Sousa e Oliveira, a Brazilian born in Coimbra, assumed the post of Consul General of Brazil in Angola. He would be exonerated about two years later, involved in tragic events. He would not return to Brazil, staying in Angola, where he would have a family, write a Kimbundu-Portuguese dictionary, a Kimbundu grammar and found a lyceum. The grammar had the partnership of Manuel Alves de Castro Francina, an Angolan educated in Brazil, and initially proposed to make corrections to the grammar of the Italian Capuchin Bernardo Maria de Cannecattim. We present here the edition of the grammar copy by Sousa e Oliveira & Francina at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro.