Luanda - UNITA plans to promote the study of the tradition and culture of the peoples that make up Angola, if it wins the elections on 24 June, said on Thursday the party's candidate for member of parliament, Cesaltina Kulanda.
Without giving details of how the project will be implemented, Cesaltina Kulanda, who was speaking during the party's ten minutes of airtime on Public Television (TPA), said that her organisation´s programme envisages studies on the use of national (indigineous) languages in the daily interaction among people in different regions of the country.
As a way of appreciation, preservation and dissemination, the Angolan government implemented, in 2013, the insertion of national languages in the education system, among other actions to promote this element of ethnolinguistic cultural identity of each people, an instrument of education and socialization.
In case of winning the ballot on 24 August, it is also included in the UNITA´s governing programme the disclosure, preservation of Angolan cultural manifestations, the teaching of music, drama, visual and plastic arts subjects and the attribution of names to historic and cultural places, according to the events registered in them.
According to the official who is also a writer, if her party becomes the government, UNITA will also bet on the increase of libraries in the municipal headquarters, in order to encourage citizens to participate.
Meanwhile, the Angolan government has created the Institute of National Languages (ILN) that is focused on promotion, scientific study and dissemination of the country’s vernacular languages in various fields, with emphasis on radio and TV stations, among others.
UNITA is one of eight candidates for the general elections on 24 August, the other participants are the MPLA, PRS, PHA, P-NJANGO, FNLA, APN and CASA-CE electoral coalition.
These will be the fifth elections in the country, but the first in which Angolans living in the diaspora (22,560 citizens) will vote.
The previous elections were held in 1992, 2008, 2012 and 2017, all of them won by the MPLA.
