{"id":237459,"date":"2026-06-26T06:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-historian-highlights-youth-participation-in-evolution-of-ngeya-festival\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:02:05","slug":"angola-historian-highlights-youth-participation-in-evolution-of-ngeya-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-historian-highlights-youth-participation-in-evolution-of-ngeya-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Historian Highlights Youth Participation in Evolution of Ngeya Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Luena \u2014 Historian and cultural researcher Salvador Cacoma highlighted on Wednesday, in Moxico Province, the growing participation of young people in the &#8220;Ngeya&#8221; Eastern Region Folk Music and Dance Festival, deeming this involvement a decisive factor for the preservation and value of local culture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The researcher was speaking to ANGOP in the context of preparations for the fifth edition of the festival, scheduled to begin Saturday (26), and will feature 160 artists, 14 more than the previous&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250654.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luena \u2014 Historian and cultural researcher Salvador Cacoma highlighted on Wednesday, in Moxico Province, the growing participation of young people in the &#8220;Ngeya&#8221; Eastern Region Folk Music and Dance Festival, deeming this involvement a decisive factor for the preservation and value of local culture. The researcher was speaking to ANGOP in the context of preparations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,15230,7632,8250,19795,257,48984,7932,254,6276],"class_list":["post-237459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-evolution","tag-festival","tag-highlights","tag-historian","tag-news","tag-ngeya","tag-participation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}