Africa-Press – Angola. The former Cuban ambassador to Angola, Oscar Oramas Oliva, praised, this Wednesday, in Luanda, the figure of the first President of Angola, António Agostinho Neto, for his career as a politician and man of culture.
In an exclusive interview, Oscar Oramas Oliva reiterated that Neto was “an exceptional human being” and a tireless fighter for the unity of Angola and the African continent.
For the diplomat, he was a great politician who was always at the forefront, highlighting his “constancy at work” in many difficult moments, as leader of the MPLA and the young Republic.
He referred that President Neto worked hard for the independence and consolidation of the Republic of Angola, always weighing his decisions.
As part of the centenary celebrations of the “greatest poet”, the diplomat will present this Thursday, in Luanda, the work “Doctor António Agostinho Neto, an exceptional man of his time”.
The book, launched last year in the Cuban provinces of Santiago de Cuba, Camaguey and Granma, is an essay that results from the ambassador’s research and memoirs, together with testimonies from those who knew and were close to the first president of Angola.
Cooperation
As for cooperation between Angola and Cuba, in the literary field, he made it known that everyone should work together to move forward, with space to work in this sense in both countries.
On the other hand, he defended the need for more work and greater dissemination of African literature, and Angolan, in particular, due to the large world groups, interested only in disseminating the works of the most developed ones.
African literature, he recalled, needs to be known, as the cradle continent made a great contribution to the process of universal civilization.
At the end of the conversation, Oscar Oramas Oliva announced that this year he will release a work on the first president of post-apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela.
He holds a PhD in Science and Art History, is a writer and was Cuba’s first ambassador to Angola. He is also the author of several books on the decolonization process in Africa and on political personalities from the continent’s birthplace, a trajectory that makes him a profound connoisseur of the subject.
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