Africa-Press – Angola. Ngeya, the biggest Music and Dance Festival in the Eastern Region of the country, starts friday at the Peace Monument Tourist Complex, in Luena.
After the experience of the experimental edition that took place in 2022, in the city of Dundo, province of Lunda Norte, this project financed by Catoca, will bring together 126 artists from the provinces of Moxico, Lunda Sul and Lunda Norte.
Non-competitive, the festival, taking place in the courtyard of the Tourist Complex of Monumento a Paz, will showcase the main traditional rhythms and folklore from the provinces of Moxico, Lunda Sul and Lunda Norte.
Despite not having a competitive character, Ngeya, which is included in the “cultural itinerary” of Catoca’s social responsibility, will award one million Kwanzas to each of the three participating groups by province.
The organization justifies the non-competitive character with the need to promote the rescue and intercultural dialogue, the meeting of generations and the construction of legacies to promote the multiculturalism of these three provinces of Angola.
Traditional dance is a popular cultural manifestation, during which people from a certain region, in this case the East of Angola, express feelings, evoke, venerate and perpetuate their ancestry.
Because it is a cultural heritage, and because it constitutes a cultural wealth, dance needs to be exhibited to immortalize the multiple behaviors, practices and attitudes evidenced through fun, animation and thanksgiving.
In a typical region of multiculturalism, with the Cokwes and Luvales being the most predominant, it is expected that the groups strive to show visitors, scholars, curious people and the population all the power of the region’s folklore, gastronomy, handicrafts and cultural tourism in the region.
Although Tchianda is the “calling card” of the typical dances of the region and, probably the most internationalized, with the singularity of being both dance and music, the event will be a privileged stage to exhibit other “millennial” potentials, as is the case Makopo, Mitingui, Maringa, in addition to Kalofolofo, Kauali, Hulengo, Kandemba, Musheta, the least known regionally.
The public, already euphoric, will be there to watch these mythical dances that blend together, or at least have a dual function, that of music and dance, whose responsibility is attributed to the groups Nejas, Ihalo, Marimba Kayowe, Wino Wa Tembo and Nhamusso, all from Mexico.
With some experience in these wanderings, the associations of Zango Tchissela, Mba Heza Mitingui and Kulimaka Tchyanda, from Lunda Sul, have increased responsibility, and, to the same extent, Txako Txa Utxokwe, Mwesseke Utalé and Maringa, from Lunda Norte.
These aspects and the need to reinforce the ethnic-cultural Angolan identity will arouse the curiosity of the population to attend, this Friday, en masse, at the majestic Tourist Complex of the Monument to Peace, stage of the event, whose related authorities estimate a presence of more of 10 thousand people.
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