Eldevina "Kika" Materula (born 1982) is a Mozambican oboist who has served as Minister of Culture and Tourism in the

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since 19 January 2020.

Life

Materula was born in

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in 1982. At the age of seven she began studying piano and recorder at the National School of Music. In 1995, aged 13, she began studying the oboe, under an agreement with the Escola Profissional de Música de Évora, in Portugal , which selected her, along with five other students, to study at that institution. In 2016, she was made an Officer of the

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by the President of Portugal.

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