Talatona - The minister of Culture and Tourism, Filipe Zau, on Monday in the Province of Luanda defended the preservation of the cultural, political and social identity of the people of Luvale Kingdom, with a view to maintaining Angolanity.
For the government official, cultural identities should be conceived as processes of identification that are established in a given time and space, resulting in a succession of constant self-creations that take shape from one time to the next.
Speaking to the press at the end of a consultation meeting with Acting Queen Nhakatola (Anabela Ngambo Kaumba), considered that it is necessary to articulate and understand that ethnolinguistic groups transcend borders and their cultural and political identity builds a nation, aspects that are not only found in Angola, but also across Africa.
In turn, the queen said that they do not agree with the name Casai Zambeze which was proposed by the authorities for one of the provinces, as part of the division of Moxico, because she considered that it had no historical basis with her people.
"We strongly reject the name Casai Zambezi, because it doesn't represent us at all. The only thing we know about this name is that it represents a river", she argued.
According to the queen (yet to be enthroned), the name proposed by her people is Moxico East/West.
In this regard, Filipe Zau announced that he would soon be meeting with officials from the Ministry of Territorial Administration to discuss the situation related to the political and administrative division of the Luvale people.
Meanwhile, Queen Nhakatolo will be enthroned between 19 and 22 July this year.
The Luvale Kingdom in Angola is represented in the provinces of Moxico, Lunda-Sul, Lunda Lunda-Norte, and abroad in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as the Republic of Zambia.
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