Africa-Press – Angola. Dozens of young plastic artists are painting walls and public spaces, without captivating adornments, on the avenues of the city of Lubango, with images that reflect the sociocultural richness of the ethnolinguistic groups Nhyaneka-Nkhumby, Mucubais and Kwanhamas.
The action promoted by the municipal administration of Lubango and young people affiliated with the Cooperativa dos Artistas Plásticos da Huíla, is giving a new image in various parts of the city where images of musical objects, hunting, fishing, agriculture and some local rituals are already visible.
The young plastic artist Jackson Pedro, a member of the movement that is coloring the avenues of the lands of Chela, praised the initiative of the authorities for bringing tourists and city dwellers closer to Serra da Leba, Tundavala, clothing and traditional dances, among others. values inherited from ancestors.
According to Jackson Pedro, the artists are committed to demonstrating their skills, bringing images of the cultural and tourist richness of the provinces of Huíla, Namibe and Cunene. “The walls of the avenues and buildings are becoming aesthetically appreciable and suitable for photographs”, he said.
For the artist, painting Lubango “represents satisfaction in contributing to the good and new image of the lands of Chela, preventing people in bad faith from using the walls of walls and buildings to practice actions that are unusual for social coexistence, in a clear demonstration of disrespect for public property”.
The young Francisco Cangue said that, despite not having attended a technical-professional arts and crafts training school, he takes advantage of the activity that aims to make the city more and more beautiful, to perfect the art of painting, which he believes has already spread for the frames.
“I would like to thank the masters Joaquim António and António Padú for instructing me and always accompanying me in the fine arts”, he underlined, having appealed to other young people with some talent to put into practice the art of drawing or painting, through the Casa de Venda de Handicrafts from Lubango.
Francisco Cangue added that the passion for painting walls in buildings began four years ago, and his talent paved the way for meeting various requests from clients, including companies and individuals, not only in Huíla, but also in other parts of the country, especially in the festive seasons.
It should be noted that Francisco Cangue designs traditional musical instruments, mumuila and mucuba women’s hairstyles, domestic utensils and wild animals. “I am now preparing to paint three pictures of three public figures, namely former presidents António Agostinho Neto and José Eduardo dos Santos and the current Head of State, João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço”, he announced.
CFM station will be turned into a museum
The materialization of the works that reclassify the urban core of the city of Lubango, budgeted at more than 200 million dollars, gave a new image to the emblematic square where the old Moçamedes Railway (CFM) station is located, thus creating conditions for turn it into a museum.
The press learned that the intention is from the Ministry of Transport, which aims not only to preserve the old railway equipment, but also to serve as a space for scientific and technological research. However, locomotives, carriages, wagons and machines will be on display.
A technician from the municipal administration of Lubango valued the current paintings on the facade, as they gave a more attractive image to the space of the former Moçâmedes Railway Station, inaugurated on September 28, 1905.
Historian Pedro Mussunda said that the first station also represents the historical landmark of the province of Huíla, as it was in the building that, on May 31, 1923, the then High Commissioner for Angola, General Norton de Matos, signed the signature of the decree that elevated the village of ex-Sá da Bandeira to the category of city.
“On this date the train whistled for the first time from Moçâmedes to the highlands of Chela. Therefore, the gain from the creation of the museum will allow national and foreign tourists and the population in general to have an idea of the history of the Caminhos- de Ferro de Moçâmedes and the creation of the city of Lubango”, he said.
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