National Festival of Angolan Culture
National Festival of Angolan Culture is held on December 18. It serves as a point of promotion of cohesion, unity and diversity of the Angolan culture. This event in the second decade of the month December is annual. 
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The traditional arts of Angola have played an important part in cultural rituals marking such passages as birth or death, childhood to adulthood, and the harvest and hunting seasons. In producing masks and other items from bronze, ivory, wood, malachite, or ceramics, each ethnolinguistic group has distinct styles.
The mixture of Portuguese and African culture has made urban Angola, especially the Luanda region, more like a Latin American than an African country. Its nightclubs, restaurants, and annual Carnival might seem at home in Brazil had not war and security measures made this sort of social life difficult.
Colours, party, a national day off and a Brazilian-style event. Carnival lives up to its reputation as the big holiday of Angola.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
Angola Independence Day on November 11 (celebrates the independence of Angola from Portugal in 1975);
Day of the Fallen against the Colonial Repression on January 4
Day of the Armed Struggle or Liberation Movement Day in Angola on February 4 (to commemorate the day in 1961 when Angolan MPLA (People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola) forces assaulted a prison house in Luanda and freed independence leaders who were incarcerated there);
Carnival in Angola on March 4 (The main day of Carnival season is a public holiday in Angola, falling on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday);
Saint Joseph's Day or Father's Day on March 19 (in Andorra, Angola, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Honduras, and Bolivia);
Southern Africa Liberation Day on March 23
Victory Day in Angola on March 27