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07:58, July 09, 2007 |
Angolan Ministry of Culture (Mincult) is to hold the Third International Meeting on the Composition of the History of Angola from Sept. 25 to 28 at the Palace of Congresses in Luanda.
According to a press release issued here at the weekend, "technical and material conditions are being created to guarantee the successful holding of the event and enable both Angolan and foreign experts to give their contributions to the composition of the history of Angola."
The release said personalities from France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, Cape Verde and Mozambique "are among those invited by the Mincult to debate topics relating to Angola's history before the arrival of Portuguese after the independence."
The meeting will also discuss matters relating to the evolution of prehistoric communities and the emerging of the first political parties, access to the most recent documents namely on the country's Liberation Struggle and even those of the post-independence period, said the release.
"The meeting aims at analyzing issues that had been little or almost never researched or how level of seriousness has not caughtthe attention of researchers, due to reasons that mostly relate tothe access to various sources to possibilities offered to the new emerging ones as well as written documents of endogenous powers orevent the availability of political archives," it said.
The four-day meeting reportedly will discuss in six panels issues about the histography of Angola, settlement, migration, political parties and their evolution, the impact of relations with the new World Slave Trade, the colonial system and its effects, national liberation struggle and their types as well as the post-independence period until 2002, the year witnessing the end of a 27-year civil war.
Source: Xinhua
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