Angola: Tchokwe People's Folk Music Festival Announced

Saurimo — A festival of Tchokwe people's folk music, dubbed "Lutongo", will be held in September this year, in the eastern Lunda Sul Province, in an initiative of the provincial department for culture, youth and sports.

The information was given last Friday to ANGOP, in Saurimo City, by the Lunda Sul provincial culture director, Gabriel Tchiema, who explained that the event is aimed at promoting and valuing the traditional music of the Tchokwe people - whose ethno-cultural area is the country's east and north-east.

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