[I find it quite interesting that Blacks couldn’t wait to chase the Portuguese out of Africa. Now those countries are a ruin and now they want to be friends with them again. Look at this… these Blacks now are taking part in cultural activities because they also speak Portuguese!! Suddenly, the Blacks embrace the very “colonialist influences” they once hated. Jan]

The Culture minister of Portugal, Isabel Pires de Lima, arrived today morning in Luanda to participate in the fourth meeting of the Culture Ministers of the Portuguese speaking Countries Community (CPLP).

Isabel Pires de Lima was welcomed at the airport by her Angolan counterpart, Boaventura Cardoso. Speaking to the press she said that she brings to this event proposals for co-operation in the field of cinematography, among the CPLP member states, as well as the use of the Portuguese language in international organisations.

The Portuguese Culture minister said that there is a hard work to be done by the CPLP countries in the areas of Culture, for this reason, the ministerial meetings are very important for the definition of commom strategies and policies aimed at the defence of the Portuguese language, the heritage, cinema and literature.

Therefore, she said, “These meetings allow us to make a balance of what we have gradually managed to achieve, for the approximation of our community and culture, which have commom and different points. It is from this diference and approximation that our riches comes”, she concluded.

Source: AllAfrica.Com
URL: http://allafrica.com/stories/200505160591.htm…/p>