Huambo - About a thousand different handicrafts were exhibited on Wednesday in the city of Huambo, as part of the celebrations of the National Day of Culture, celebrated on January 8.
The exhibition was visited by the Minister of Culture, Filipe Zau, and the Governor of Huambo Province, Pereira Alfredo, shortly after the Doutor António Agostinho Neto square was declared a National Cultural Heritage Site.
This is a demonstration of the wealth of craftsmanship that expresses knowledge, habits, customs, gastronomy, traditions, dance, pottery and traditional medicine practices.
It also includes the illustration of the geographical map of Huambo Province, musical instruments, fauna, flora and traditional tools of the Uvimbundu people, opening new avenues for entrepreneurship and thus promoting self-employment.
The National Day of Culture was approved by decree in November 1986, as a tribute to the speech on national culture given by Angola's first president, António Agostinho Neto, in 1979, on the occasion of the inauguration of the governing bodies of the Angolan Writers' Union in Luanda.
On that occasion, the country's greatest poet, António Agostinho Neto, delivered a speech on national culture, which has since become a fundamental reference in all discussions on the country's culture. LT/ALH/AMP
