Africa-Press – Angola. A literature competition was institutionalized this year in Lunda-Sul province by the multisectoral commission in charge of organizing the commemorations of the centenary of the first President of Angola, António Agostinho Neto, which takes place on 17 September.
Mendes Gaspar, president of the organizing committee, said that the contest, convened in all municipalities in Lunda-Sul, had the participation of 30 authors, including teenagers and young people, and ten million kwanzas were made available to reward the winners of the literary prize.
The president of the organizing committee assured that the criteria for the determination impose on the competitors the obligation to write, in 25 pages, content with a pedagogical nature on the life and work of the Founder of the Nation.
The jury will select the best texts to define the first, second and third classified, with a prize of 1,500 thousand kwanzas for the winner, and the publication of the work in book, by a publisher of their choice.
The initiative, according to the organization, aims to preserve the memory of the late President Agostinho Neto, and disseminate his legacy, as well as the political trajectory of the nationalist António Agostinho Neto, to motivate the artistic vein of the new generation.
The program of festivities for the centenary of Poeta Maior also includes colloquia, theater shows and other activities.
Born in Icolo e Bengo, on the 17th of September 1922, and died in Moscow, on the 10th of the same month, in 1979, the doctor and writer António Agostinho Neto is considered the main figure of the country in the 20th century.
President of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola since 1962, first as honorary president, Agostinho Neto proclaimed Angola’s Independence on November 11, 1975 and then became Angola’s first President until 1979.
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