Africa-Press – Angola. Five hundred and fifty books, including literary, didactic and children’s books, are on display this Sunday at the Central Garden of Ondjiva, southern Cunene province, with a view to promoting a taste for reading.
Promoted by the “Ler e Aprendiz” project, the two-day exhibition is aimed at reading and research, as part of the actions of the World Book and Copyright Day, to be celebrated on the 23rd of April.
The project coordinator, Isdore Otombo, said that the project launched in 2022 aims to promote the habit of reading and bibliographic consultation among young people, students and professionals from different sectors, freely and free of charge.
Isdore Otombo said that the purpose is to bring joy, leisure and fun to communities through literature, giving greater visibility and promotion to books produced by Angolan writers.
“There are books of various genres, from national, African, European, children’s literature, law, economics, anthropology, informatics, optics and medicine, among other didactic topics”, he underlined.
The writer also said it was an opportunity for many students, without financial resources, to have the opportunity to do their research within the neighborhood and close to home.
Given the small number of libraries and the habit of reading, he recognized that community libraries do solidary and philanthropic work, hence the need to draw up more inclusive measures to rescue the taste for reading and books.
He assured that the project has a diversified and inclusive cultural agenda, as a way of seeking to help add cultural values to youth, with the promotion of children’s literature, school support books and school manuals, holding round tables and narrating children’s stories .
World Book Day is a date chosen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) to celebrate the book and encourage reading.
The date aims to honor authors and reflect on their legal rights. This date was chosen in tribute to the writers Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and William Shakespeare, who died on April 23, 1616.
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