Angola: Support for the promotion of Angolan languages

During the opening of a seminar on cultural journalism this week in Luanda, Angola, the Minister of Culture, Boaventura Cardoso, gave his support for the promotion of vernacular languages as a fundamental support for cultural identity.

“It is through our vernacular languages that thousands of Angolans better express their sentiments and emotions. Thus it is with satisfaction that we notice at this seminar the presence of journalists working on our radio station, “Ngola Yetu” and the Public Television, capable of improving our languages for broadcasting,” he asserted.

He also acknowledged the existence of much prejudice with regard to the use of vernacular languages which leads us into concluding that it is important to develop an ample debate on this matters, being important to think, in a near future, of holding reflection events, with the participation of more intellectuals, experts and communities.

He also said:

“We want cultural information to be richer and richer and the various cultural and artistic expressions of Angolan artists to be appropriately promoted: To this end, we will have to revise the existing mechanisms and create new ways of cooperating and interchange among various cultural and information agents, facilitating contacts, better guiding our common action towards culture and consolidation of democracy and consequently, national unity,”

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