Prime Minister Antonio Costa spoke this Thursday in Maputo with the artist Janet Mulafa, who surprised him at the end of the ceremony at the Portuguese Cultural Centre.
The Head of Government took part in the presentation ceremony of three projects subsidized by the PROCULTURA program in Mozambique, at the end of which he presented an oboe to the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Mozambique, Eldevina Materula, who was a soloist in the Porto Casa da Música Symphony Orchestra and directed the Xiquitsi Orchestra project, which contributes teaching classical music to children from disadvantaged families.
In the end, when he left the building to visit the exhibition “O apetrechar do tempo” by the Mozambican Gonçalo Mabunda and the Portuguese-Angolan Francisco Vidal, the Prime Minister was surprised by the artist Janet Mulafa.
During her performance, with a large body expression component and a mallet in hand, the dancer “pulled” António Costa to an impromptu choreography, and the walk down the street in front of the Portuguese Cultural Center turned into a dance floor where they both twirled.
On the first of two days of the prime minister’s official visit to Maputo, the city where his father was born, there was already another moment of dancing, early in the morning, when a group of young people showed off traditional styles at the end. At the time, the prime minister was just watching.
In his speech at the Portuguese Cultural Center, António Costa stressed that culture promotes growth and wealth, and emphasized that this European Union-funded program for Portuguese-speaking African countries (PALOP) and Timor-Leste allows “to bring together Portuguese-speaking countries”, as well as the European and African continents, providing “a global and international projection for all”.
Regarding the exhibition “O Apetrechar do tempo”, Costa believes that “the transformation of the objects of war into the promotion of peace is certainly something especially necessary, inspiring and relevant today.”
Earlier, Mozambique’s Minister of Culture and Tourism indicated that Mozambique is the country with the most proposals submitted to PROCULTURA and that “40% of approved projects” come from the country.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
