摘要：This paper "Provérbios: 'voz do povo ' e intertexto das Lit eraturas Africanas" proposes to reflect on the importance of restoring and preserving t he proverbial forms, with regard to the scope of everyday life, as well as under the African Literatures. Therefore obey the following route, first, in introducing discuss so me defin itions about the proverbs. It gives continuity was addressing t he use of forms in the social and p olitical daily. Then through three Mozambican writers, namely: Ungulani Ba ka Kho sa, Paulina Chiziane and Mia Couto, it is shown how the proverbs - orality and t raditio n represent atives, permeates the works of metaphorical and po et ic form, showing t he intertext
