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Author: Reginaldo Silva (Reporter)
With this article I begin to publish a regular opinion column on the Angolan portal, “Observatório da Maianga”, focusing on some of the issues that I consider to be of greatest concern/interest when it comes to the present and future of this country and its more than thirty million inhabitants.
The current columnist’s commitment to Portal de Angola will be biweekly, given that it is weekly, which means that I will sign this opinion here twice a month on Monday.
I am primarily interested in the future, but the past is not forgotten for obvious reasons, as long as flashbacks are justified in a country with frequent memory problems (which by general definition is already a selective/mobile field). Memory problems affect us all, both on an individual and institutional level.
For more than 30 million Angolans, all the attention and worry are meaningful, because without people there is no Angola, and it is better to be alive, healthy and happy, which is far from our brand image.
Without the millions of Angolans experiencing rapid population growth and above average birth rates, even above the African average, there would be no Angola.
The biggest challenge is not just looking at all of these people as statistics, but trying to identify each person based on their own background as much as possible.
This is where the story takes place.
Therefore, it is impossible to talk about Angola without talking about every Angolan, at least from a journalistic point of view, which has been guiding me professionally since I was admitted to radio almost 50 years ago. Angola National Television, still clad in the garb of the colonial period, was the official broadcaster of Angola, only a few months away from the greatest day in our history, November 11, 1975.
Date of Dipanda.
This will be a typical journalistic chronicle, as humorous as possible, in line with current affairs and public interests, political current affairs are undoubtedly my greatest passion.
Gone are the days when politics belonged only to politicians.
These are the days of the past or Kapalanda that some nostalgic people insist on bringing back.
It is a very rational journalistic passion that can be explained by the impact and transversality of political decisions on all of us as citizens with all the rights and freedoms that we have, but without, obviously, forgetting the responsibilities and duties that are at the basis of this “journalistic art engineering” that is lived in society.
Live, but with a minimum recommended social peace, otherwise coexistence can be a very complex challenge, as it still exists anywhere in human communities protected by political power.
We are talking about social peace, using a definition that is not our own, as “the existence of social, economic and political conditions that promote collective well-being and allow all members of the community to live together in a respectful and equitable manner”.
Considering the majority of Angolans, we are talking about the minimum, which, unfortunately, is still not available in Angola after the deafening noise of war ended more than 22 years ago.
With a noise of terror and destruction, horribly constraining everything and everyone.
Fortunately, as Felipe Mukenga sings, this noise is now part of the rubble, but apparently its elimination from our acoustic landscape has not been enough to make way for other, less harsh/more harmonious sounds.
It has not worked and, most seriously at present, the trend towards achieving the desired social peace is not very encouraging.
Considering our human development indicators, we are not approaching the “Olympic minimum standards”, but moving away from them.
We would like to believe that this is just a cyclical trend.
We will therefore follow, from the highest levels of the “Maianga Observatory”, the path that leads us to social peace, without missing any part of current affairs that is of the necessary public interest to advance this chronicle with everlasting hope.
Clearly, we don’t have the capacity, nor the physical space available in the news chronicle, to absorb and process all of the worrying/interesting things that happen in this country on a daily basis.
It is always part of the daily movement in a country that is preparing to celebrate its first half-century of existence as an independent nation next November.
“Do Angolans have reason to celebrate the 50th anniversary of independence on a large scale? Or should they use this day for reflection?”
In response to a question posted by a reporter on social networks, we responded as follows:
Those of us who have witnessed the birth of this country from day one and have never left here should be awarded the great medal of courage, patience and faith.
Angola is here to stay!
Angola forever!
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