Cazombo - Angolan minister of Culture and Tourism Filipe Zau Tuesday in Cazombo, Moxico province, announced the intention to implement sustainable tourism in the country’s far-eastern region.
The minister pledged so to the press after a few-hour working visit to Alto Zambeze, during which he met with the Queen of the Luvale people, Nhacatolo Tchissengo.
He said that sustainable tourism will be created through tourist communities organised in cooperatives.
He recognised that the municipality, which is 516 kilometers east of Luena, the capital of Moxico, is culturally rich.
The official pointed out the circulation of tourist trains that pass through the municipality of Luau, the last station of the Benguela Railway (CFB), and which is separated by more than 200 kilometers from Alto Zambeze, as an important link for the implementation of the project.
He said he left concrete ideas to the local Municipal Administration for the implementation of sustainable tourism.
As for Queen Nhacatolo's request to include, in the news of the Public Television of Angola (TPA), subjects reported in the Luvale language, Filipe Zau said that the Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technology and Social Communication is already aware of the fact, “and at this moment there are looking for interpreters to carry it out”.
The Luvales are the second most abundant ethnic group in the region, after the Cokwe, but more expressive in the municipality of Alto Zambeze. It is a people who have ethnic origins in the Mwantiavwa Kingdom, that is, Lunda/Cokwé, and their symbol of sovereignty is Queen Nyakatolo – the Mother of the Valwena or Valuvale.
