2024-08-26 23:30:11
By: Reginaldo Silva (Journalist)
With this text on the “Portal de Angola” I start a regular opinion column called “Observatório da Maianga” and focus on what I consider to be some of the issues of greatest concern/interest to me, when the present tense and the story in question. the future of this country and its more than thirty million inhabitants.
Considering a weekly presence, at the moment the commitment of the columnist for Portal de Angola will be every two weeks, which means that I will be here signing the point twice a month on Mondays.
I am mainly interested in the future, but the past will not be forgotten for obvious reasons, whenever a flashback is warranted in a country with recurrent memory problems, which by general definition is already selective/moving territory . Memory problems affect us all, both at the individual and institutional level.
It belongs to the more than thirty million Angolans and for them all the attention and concern makes sense, because there is no Angola without people, preferably alive, healthy and happy, who are still far from being our brand image .
There is no Angola, without all these millions of Angolans experiencing rapid demographic growth and with a birth rate above the average, even the African average.
The biggest challenge is to look at all these people not just as statistical figures, but to try where it is possible to identify each person in their own context.
That’s where the stories are.
Therefore, this abstraction is not possible, that is to say about Angola without talking about each and every Angolan, at least from the journalistic point of view, and that is the one that led me professionally from about 50 years ago I was admitted to Rádio. Nacional de Angola still in its colonial clothes as the Official Broadcaster of Angola, when only a few months separated us from November 11, 1975, which is the greatest date in our history.
Date of the Dipanda.
It will usually be journalistic chronicles and when it can be funny, in line with current affairs and public interest, and political current affairs are certainly the one I love the most.
Gone are the times when politics was only for politicians.
These are the times of years or kaparandanda that people claim to bring back nostalgia.
It is a very rational journalistic passion that is explained by the influence and intersectionality that political decisions have on each of us as citizens with all the rights and freedoms we have, without forgetting, of course, the duties and obligations that fundamental in this “art of engineering” that is living in society.
Living, but with that minimal social peace that has been proposed, without which coexistence could be a very complex challenge, as it continues to be everywhere there are human communities that are protected by political powers.
We are talking about social peace, using a definition that is not ours, about “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 a minimum that, unfortunately, Angola still does not have, after the end of the deafening noise of the war more than 22 years ago.
A noise that put a terrible condition on everything and everyone, with its procession of horror and destruction.
Fortunately, this noise, as sung by Felipe Mukenga, is now part of the rubble, but apparently it has not been enough to banish it from our acoustic landscape yet to give way to other sounds that are less harsh and more harmonious.
It has not worked and the most serious thing at this point is that the trends towards the desired social peace are not very encouraging.
Considering our human development indicators, instead of approaching the “Olympic minimums”, we are moving away from them.
We want to believe that it is just a cyclical trend.
It is on the paths that should, therefore, lead us to social peace, without going beyond anything that is part of current affairs with the essential interest of the community, that we will seek from the top of the “Observatório da Maianga” this chronicle to forward. always with hope.
As is clear, we will not have the capacity, nor the physical space available in journalistic chronicles, to absorb and process all the worrying/interesting things that happen daily in this country.
It will always be part of the daily movement of this country, which is preparing to celebrate its first half century of being an independent nation in November next year.
“Do Angolans have reasons for a massive celebration of 50 years of independence or should the date be used for reflection?”
To this question published on a social network by someone who is also a journalist, we responded as follows:
Those of us who saw the country born from day one and never left here, should be granted the great order of courage, patience and faith.
Angola is here to stay!
Angola is forever!
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