This article aims to analyse and reflect the relationship of power and the order of discourse in Paulina Chiziane’s novel “Balada de Amor à wind” and its relationship with the contemporary French theories of Michael Foucault, asking about the relationship between power and the ways of legitimising the control of discourse between the portrayed reality of postcolonial Mozambique. As well as the encounter between power and the variant of gender, race/ethnicity and body. The relationship between the feminine and their subjection to discourse linked to the religious and cultural tradition that permeates the nation. It is discussed about the participation of women in African society and polygamy as the current form of tradition of the tribes of southern Mozambique and the encounter between the dichotomy tradition/subjection, power/gender in patriarchal contexts and the maintenance of machismo as the current discourse of contemporaneity. It analyses the forms of tradition of discourse societies as articulating axis of discipline of the body and social behavior linked to the representation of man and woman and male and female. The work is divided into three topics that will guide the reader’s understanding, starting with a brief biography of the author, following the articulation of her work with Foucaultian theory and the work “The Order of Discourse” to continue with the relationship and theoretical interconnection of the two authors. Ending, therefore, with the reflection of the African context and the current discourses of repression and control in women, the analysis between the legitimisation of power and its evidence in the work to be compared. For its elaboration, it was necessary the bibliographical research of authors such as Chiziane (2003), FOUCAULT (1996), MACEDO (2007) MATA (2000) SANTANA (2005), who question the relationship of power in African contexts and the reflection of phenomena that instigate power and control over women.