Africa-Press – Angola. The king of Ombala do Ovakuanhama, province of Cunene, Jerónimo Haleinge, defended, this Monday, the need to recover the originality of the history and cultural values of the Ovambo peoples, aiming to maintain their identity and legacy.
The Ovakwanhama is a subgroup of the Ovambo, who live in southern Angola, covering a large part of Cunene province and northern Namibia, also known as Ovambolândia.
Jerónimo Haleinge made this pronouncement during his visit to the reign and consequently the dissertation of the lecture on the habits and customs of the culture of Ovakwanhama and globalization, addressed to students of the specialty of History, assigned to the teaching profession Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto.
On the occasion, he highlighted the importance of young students to find out about the culture and its uses and customs of Oukwanhama, in order to have greater control of reality and better transmit the historical fundamentals, whose current narratives were told according to the interest of the colonizers.
This time, he stressed that action should be based on the rescue of cultural values and rituals destroyed by the imposition of European culture, so that new generations can learn about history.
He added that it is time for future teachers and historians to describe the facts as they happened, replacing some untruths that can be found in some literary works”, he maintained.
“You have the mission of disseminating the history of the people of our land and transmitting not only cultural, civic, historical and moral values for the rescue of our values lost over time”, he underlined.
In turn, the lecturer on the culture of Ovakwanhama and globalization, Pedro Tungeni, gave a percussion of the organization of the reign, the cultural diversity of the Ovambo, from gastronomy, clothing and other signs that identify the people of the region.
It supported the need for continuous preservation of culture, aiming to maintain the identity of these peoples who preserve the traces of rituals from their centrality.
Historian Dias Sinedima, who addressed the theme “The importance of including culture in government programs”, highlighted the need for joint work between researchers, traditional power authorities and the government, in order to encourage culture through macro economic plans, which aim to give greater importance to the cultural industry.
He also highlighted the need to create a museum, in order to guarantee the preservation of the collection that represents the sociocultural mosaic of the local ethno-linguistic groups.
The activity as part of the commemorative day of the World Day of Cultural Diversity, celebrated on Sunday (May 21), aimed at maintaining, perpetuating, promoting, publicizing and valuing the Kingdom of Oukwanyama and its former sovereigns.
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