Revista Abatirá (
2020)
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In the following interview, conducted by email between June 21 and July 2, 2020, Filipe Cahungo talks about his
academic trajectory, Angolan philosophy and the relations – including tectonic ones – between Brazil and
Angola. I hope that our dialogue can strengthen (on the intellectual and emotional levels) a relationship that
already exists (on the historical and geological levels). I also hope that readers are not bothered by the fact that I
use the Brazilian Portuguese spelling and he the Angolan one. As Rafael Haddock-Lobo explained, it is only possible to philosophize in Portuguese. Not because Portuguese is a metaphysically privileged language. Not
because we lexically distinguish between “being [ser]” and “being [estar]”, something that neither the French or
the German languages do. It is only possible to philosophize in Portuguese for a much simpler reason: it is in our
mother tongues, with their particular spellings, that we feel most comfortable. Filipe Miguel Mário Cahungo was
born on August 13, 1992, in the province of Bengo, municipality of Dembos-Quibaxe. He attended the “Seminar
of the Missionaries of the Divine Word” in Angola from 2010 to 2016. In 2013, he joined the Instituto Superior
Dom Bosco, a unit attached to the Universidade Católica de Angola, where he attended studies in philosophy as
a Seminarian of the Congregação dos Missionários do Mundo Divino. In 2017 he graduated in Philosophy at the
Instituto Superior Dom Bosco – Universidade Católica de Angola. He is a member of the Organização Ondjango
Filosófico (FILONORG). He investigates African philosophy, African theology and African spirituality, and is
the author of several academic articles.