Africa-Press – Angola. Angolan writers Hortêncio Cassemene and Fernando Branco defended the need to value reading, as books are a source of language development, literacy and critical thinking.
On the occasion of World Book and Authors’ Rights Day, which takes place (23), Hortêncio Cassemene insists on the obligation for people to develop a taste for reading, while Fernando Branco highlights the significant benefits of reading, from information, education, entertainment and construction of opinions and linguistic creativity.
Nine years after releasing his first book entitled “Caminhos”, Hortêncio Cassemene understands that promoting reading involves creating reading clubs, promoting debates and exchanging ideas around books and organizing “literary cafes”.
Also author of “The Foreigner”, Cassemene advocated discouraging practices of looking at writing as a hobby, rather than a profession, although he understands that the absence or insufficiency of bookstores promotes poor adoption or acquisition of manuals and thus there are few readers.
“In recent times, many people join book launch ceremonies, purchase them and unfortunately do not open them”, lamented the writer.
For writer Fernando Branco, lowering or subsidizing the costs of producing literary works and forcing schools to cultivate the habit of reading and writing, with the creation of libraries, becomes “an unavoidable path” to promoting books and literature. reading.
After debuting in the literary market with “Crónicas e Pensamentos”, Fernando Branco considers the country to be a market with little support for and appreciation of the written art, as writing and launching a book “continue to present a scenario with enormous challenges”.
Such challenges, according to the author of “The President of 2030”, include creating policies to encourage book production, through the Ministry of Culture and the opening of banks to invest in books.
This measure would make it possible to reduce the selling price of the book to the reading population and consequently return on investment, said Fernando Branco, who has “O Bispo dos Pés Descalços” as his latest literary work.
In view of the high costs for the production of the book, the writer Edson Seúlo, exemplified that he had to spend 500 thousand kwanzas to print 100 copies of his unprecedented literary work, with the title “Abertas a Lágrimas”, arguing that with a printing house in the eastern region of the country “we would have a lower cost when printing the book”.
In the last three years, the province of Moxico has recorded the publication of several literary works, namely, “Prohibitions of evidence and procedural nonsense”, by Elizeu Sacoji, “Leading with moral ethics and citizenship, a look at us”, by Quintas Sempieca, “Depression, Reflections of a Bright Look”, by Alma Luzendo and Chronicles and thoughts” and “O Bispo dos Pés Descalços”, by Fernando Branco.
Also noteworthy are “O kiss que me Gerou”, by Eusébio Cassoma, “Lições de Administração Local Autárquica” by Maláquias Mário, “Foreign investment in Angola, fiscal aspects”, by Domingos Sete, as well as the books “Ser Feliz na Simplicidade “, by Filomeno Wanga and “The Gods, Sons of Devils”, by Abel
The anniversary was institutionalized in 1995, at the 28th General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), with the purpose of encouraging reading and promoting the protection of copyright.
And the importance of books as a fundamental element of education and progress in a society also stands out.
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