Luanda - The literary dimension of the first president of Angola, Agostinho Neto, is since Monday, in Luanda, being portrayed through plastic arts exhibition as part of his Centenary celebration.
The initiative of Memorial António Agostinho Neto, with support of the Goethe Institute of Angola, aims at recovering and exhibiting works created by António Domingues that illustrate the trilingual edition (Portuguese-English-French) of the work "Sacred Hope", which was exposed for the first time during the transfer of the Agostinho Neto’s remains to the Memorial.
Composed of 10 works totally restored, the "Sacred Hope" exhibition will be displayed at Memorial António Agostinho Neto until November 10.
According to the head of Memorial António Agostinho Neto, António Fonseca, the exhibition consists of 10 pictures and eight sketches that interpret the graphics of the illustrated edition of the work Sacred Hope.
The widow of the first president of Angola, Maria Eugénia Neto, on her turn, said the exhibition of the works may provide more research materials for literature brigades.
Maria Eugénia Neto also emphasized that young people should look at the works as the "Sacred Hope" that the first president of Angola always carried.
Sacred Hope is a book of poems dating from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, the oldest poems being written around 1945, by the first president of Angola, António Agostinho Neto.
The work as a whole brings reflections and sensitization regarding the African situation in the cited years, resulting from European colonialism and too much exploitation of the people in the African colonies.
António Agostinho Neto was born on September 17, 1922, in Kaxicane, Icolo and Bengo, and died on September 10, 1979.
As Angola's first president, he proclaimed the country's independence from the then Portuguese colonialism on November 11, 1975.
He is a reference of the national culture, having written several works translated to various languages, with emphasis on "Four Poems of Agostinho Neto", in 1957, "Sacred Hope" (1974) and "The Impossible Renunciation" (1982).
