Luanda – Angola participates since this Monday until the 26th June, in Maputo, Mozambique, in the first Euro-African Campus for Cultural Co-operation, which is supposed to discuss, among other subjects, migration and culture in both continents.

According to a press note from the Angolan Ministry of Culture,  the country will be represented in the event by the historian Simão Souindoula, who is going to talk about “Migration and Culture in Euro-African Context”.

That Angolan historian will emphasise, during his speech, the importance of European continent in terms of African artistic production publicity.

As the document says, the African expert's agenda mentions also the holding of a lecture in Eduardo Mondlane University with the  topic “the rewriting of History, an anagenisis in cultural politics in Africa”.

“The lecture will also serve to evaluate, together with the Mozambican historian, Benigna Zimba, the possibilities to present the project for an International Cultural Museum of Slavery”, reads the document.

Organised by the Spanish Foundation Interarts and the Cultural Politics Observatory in Africa, the “First Euro-African Campus for Cultural Cooperation” had the support of a Spanish Agency of Cooperation for International Development, the Mozambican Ministry of Culture and Education.

In the event will take part the the Mozambican National Commission for UNESCO chairman, Graça Machel, Congolese writer Henri Lopes, Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour, Congolese Ethno-musician Mbuyamba Lupwishio, the Ivorian criticYacouba Konate and the Malian filmmaker Cheik Oumar.