Two-colour offset lithograph, DNPP, Maputo
The ‘Cultural Offensive of the Working and Peasant Classes’ was a series of initiatives launched by Frelimo in April 1977 to encourage revolutionary transformation in literature, visual arts, music, theatre, painting and dance. It included a programme of exhibitions, seminars and festivals, including the National Festival of People’s Dance in 1978, launched with the promise to ‘make culture an important weapon of revolutionary education, a fundamental instrument in the creation of O Homem Novo (the New Man).’