Africa-Press – Angola. The book “Mwangole Stories of Ouvir e Contar” by César Lourenço “Kota Cassule” and Neto Dianguxi “Man Garras”, is presented today, at 16:00, in a session of sale and signing of autographs, at Mediateca Zé Dú, in the municipality do Cazenga, in Luanda.
The same event will take place tomorrow, from 10:00 am, at the Casa da Cultura do Rangel “Njinga Mbandi”, Rua C 5. The book brings several stories that portray different aspects of everyday life.
According to the preface, the book tells stories that give us moral lessons, with a view to guiding the youngest to respect traditions, customs, especially respect for their elders. Famous for the way they narrate the stories in the radio program “Sons da Banda”, from Rádio Luanda, broadcast on Saturday mornings, under the heading “História do Ouvir Contar”, in pairs, the work intends to preserve the purest and most profound expressions of the people.
The book seeks to approach different aspects of the Angolan cultural matrix in a more positive way, with different teachings for everyday practice, husband and wife relationship, family life, alambamento issues, enigmas, among other knowledge of the cultural wealth in the country, as testimonies of the older people from the sanzalas, rich in proverbs and stories that are part of the culture, so peculiar in rural areas.
It is an easy-to-read book aimed at a diverse audience. Kota Cassule said that the objective of passing the oral stories to the book is to allow leaving a positive legacy and “archive the collective memory of the Angolan people, thus leaving a testimony with some knowledge to the youth because many of the stories are real fruit of some research done in some provinces”, he pointed out.
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