Africa-Press – Angola. The 2nd edition of the Kongo International Culture Festival (FestiKongo), initially scheduled for the period from the 5th to the 8th of this month, was canceled “sine die”, in Mbanza Kongo, from a source official.
The cancellation of the event was confirmed by the coordinator of the Participatory Management Committee of the Historic Center of Mbanza Kongo, Biluka Nsakala Nsenga, without going into details.
The event would mark the 6th anniversary of the inscription of the Historic Center of Mbanza Kongo as a Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, which took place on July 8, 2017.
The periodic holding of FestiKongo is one of the recommendations of UNESCO when Mbanza Kongo was registered, as a framework for cultural exchange and reaffirmation between the countries that were then part of the territory of the Kingdom of Kongo, including its diaspora throughout the rest of the world.
He informed that the Participative Management Committee had already booked the plane tickets for the foreign guests who would animate several themes that, initially, were scheduled in the event’s program.
Biluka Nsakala Nsenga said he believed that, in the coming years, the conditions, which he did not specify, would be better created for holding a festival on the scale of Mbanza Kongo, the capital of the former Kingdom of Kongo.
The first and last edition of FestiKongo took place in 2019, having suffered an interregnum in the following three years due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The historic center of Mbanza Kongo was inscribed, on July 8, 2017, as a World Cultural Heritage Site, during the 41st Session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, which took place in the city of Kraków, Poland.
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