Africa-Press – Angola. Mozambican writer Paulina Chiziane encouraged, in Luena, Moxico province, eastern Angola, the promotion of female emancipation and empowerment, as long as it respects African cultural reality, to raise awareness of Africanity.
For the renowned writer, leveraging what African women have is one of the best forms of gender empowerment, through getting to know their past better, understanding their present and envisioning their future.
Paulina Chiziane made these considerations during the “Café Literário”, organized by the Muyombo bookstore, which aimed to promote literature and culture among young people.
He also argued that there must be “useful models” in society, as was the case in the past, remembering emancipation and the struggles fought by Queen N’Zinga Mbande, Cleopatra, among others, for the independence of their countries.
Paulina Chiziane understands that the lack of references makes people manipulable, due to the phenomenon of acculturation that is taking hold everywhere.
In this Literary Café that also aimed to enlighten young people about the origin of the Cokwe people, King Mwatxissengo Wa Tembo, sovereign of the Cokwe, said that this ethnic group has several tribes such as Luvales, Nganguela, Mmundas who, in the past, had a designated alliance “ Lunda people”.
He recalled that the Cokwe, who reside mainly in eastern Angola, Lunda Sul, Lunda Norte and Moxico, went through a metamorphic tribulation.
The aforementioned tribulation, he recalled, consisted of the violation of the rules of the reign, carried out by the daughter of King Count Matete, Queen “Lueje Ankonde”, a fact that led the remaining members of the royal family, such as Ndonje and his niece Samaba, to withdraw and look for other lands to govern and establish your power.
Along this path, said the 11th king of the Cokwe line, several tribes were born, with Mwatchiavua leading the Lundas, Nhakatolo the Luvale and Mwaxissengue Wa Tembo for the Cokwe.
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