Malawi, through the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Culture has organised the first Ludo Diversity of Malawi Festival as one way of promoting the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
According to the ministry, the festival aims to protect, preserve and promote knowledge passed on from generation to generation by popularising the tradition games such as Phada, Ndado, Ntchuwa, Nguli, Nsikwa, Kamgolosale, Fulaye, Fish-fish, Nthonga/Kabeza and Mbalika.
The festival is slated for November 14 at Kamuzu Institute for Sports in Lilongwe.
The ministry’s spokesperson MacMillan Mwale speaking in an interview yesterday, said the festival initiative is one of the many interventions the country is making in promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Mwale said: “We have done research on food and dances and we have submitted gule wamkulu, nsima, ntchopa (rain-making dance), vimbuza (healing dance) and mwinoghe (joyance dance) to Unesco.” He said participants at the festival will be selected in collaboration with ethnic and cultural groupings such as Mulhako wa Alhomwe, Chiwanja cha Ayao, Mgumano wa Sena ndi amang’anja, Chewa Heritage and M’dauko w Atonga.
“We are bringing together 120 traditional game players and....
