Angola’s backyard revolution
This month on AIAC Radio we talk with Marissa Moorman and Paulo Flores to see how a music culture born in the quintals of Luanda helped birth a nation. Listen on Worldwide FM.
Angola
A hug that listens
Angolans have made themselves in and out of Angola, in conversation with the world; they carry with them the deep look of permanent uncertainty. But also take with them the smile of resistance.
Um abraço em escuta
Ekwa Msangi, realizadora Tanzaniana-Americana, mostra a história de muitos imigrantes com a experiência de uma família angolana de imigração.
The strange case of Portugal’s returnees
White settler returnees to Portugal in 1975, and the history of decolonization, can help us understand the complicated category of refugee.
Angola’s veterans
Recent changes affect the daily lives of ex-combatants and other soldiers who struggle to reintegrate into society a decade after the end of the war.
Oil and Angola’s ‘crusade’ against corruption
Angolan political authorities are not particularly interested in justice or tackling corruption. It is more about settling scores.
A seca quando chove
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
How to govern Angola
The make-believe consensus built around local government elections continues as always to ignore the views and expectations of Angolans. But the people are organizing.
O desafio da governação autárquica em Angola
O consenso aparente construído pelo regime em torno das eleições autárquicas continua, como sempre, a ignorar as opiniões e expectativas dos angolanos. Mas a juventude angolana está a mobilizar-se.
Creating colonial Portugal in Africa
How colonial Portugal, to project the idea of a multi-continental and multiracial country, initiated a drive to encourage white settlement in Angola and Mozambique.
A jaula de aço do Presidente João Lourenço
Preocupado em atrair investimentos estrangeiros e combater à corrupção ao administrar uma divisão no partido no poder, o presidente angolano João Lourenço ignora o seu aliado mais forte: a sociedade civil jovem.
President João Lourenço’s iron cage
Preoccupied with attracting foreign investment and fighting corruption while managing a split in the ruling party, the Angolan president João Lourenço ignores his strongest ally: youthful civil society.
The art washing of Sindika Dokolo
The art world largely Isabel dos Santos’s husband despite him being caught up in large scale corruption.
Cold sweats and furtive listening in Angola
Historian Marissa Moorman wrote an important book about radio and modern state power.
Beyond White Jesus
While many African Christians can only imagine a white Jesus, others have actively promoted a vision of a brown or black Jesus, both in art and in ideology.
The margins of urban life in Angola
In Angola, the poor are not entitled to full citizenship rights. They also are the base of resistance to the regime.
How to film a revolution
The films of Robert Van Lierop and Margaret Dickson chronicled anti-imperial struggles in Mozambique.
How to remember Jonas Savimbi
Sixteen years after the end of the Angolan civil war, the Angolan state considers how to properly remember and memorialize the leader of UNITA.
Thirty years after Cuito Cuanavale
A series of photos documenting the contemporary state of the site of perhaps the most decisive battle in the liberation of Southern Africa.