«The Prime Minister, António Costa, this Thursday gave a little dance in Maputo with the artist Janeth Mulapha, who surprised him at the end of a ceremony at the Portuguese Cultural Center.
The head of government participated in the presentation ceremony of three projects subsidized by the PROCULTURA program in Mozambique, at the end of which he offered an oboe to the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mozambique, Eldevina Materula, who performed as a soloist in the Porto Symphony Orchestra Casa da Música and directed the Xiquitsi Orchestra, a project that promotes the teaching of classical music to children from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In the end, when he was leaving the building to visit the exhibition “O apetrechar do tempo”, by the Mozambican Gonçalo Mabunda and the Luso-Angolan Francisco Vidal, the prime minister was surprised by the artist Janeth Mulapha.
During her performance, with a great component of corporal expression and hammer in hand, the dancer ‘threw’ António Costa into an improvised choreography and the walk along the street in front of the Portuguese Cultural Center became a dance floor, where the two they rotated
The first of two days of the prime minister’s official visit to Maputo, his father’s hometown, had already had another dance moment, early in the morning, when a group of young people demonstrated traditional styles at the final. At that time, the prime minister just watched.
In his speech at the Portuguese Cultural Center, António Costa stressed that culture generates growth and wealth and stressed that this programme, which is financed by the European Union and is aimed at the Portuguese-speaking African Countries (PALOP) and Timor-Leste allows “bringing together the Portuguese-speaking countries”, as well as the European and African continents, giving “global and international projection to all”.
Regarding the exhibition “O Apetrechar do tempo”, Costa considered that “the transformation of war objects in the promotion of peace is certainly something especially necessary, inspiring and current today”.
Earlier, the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mozambique pointed out that Mozambique is the country with the most proposals submitted to PROCULTURA and that “40% of the approved projects” come from the country.
Source: Observadora
