Two places called Kongo
Francesca Harding joins Chief Boima for the fourth episode recorded in Los Angeles, California. Our guest is Angolan activist Mel Gamboa.
Francesca Harding joins Chief Boima for the fourth episode recorded in Los Angeles, California. Our guest is Angolan activist Mel Gamboa.
Despite the political reforms by Angola’s government, the harassment of anti-corruption journalist Rafael Marques continues.
Angola's new president may still chart his own political course against party directives and the interests of the Dos Santos family.
After 38 years of Angola's dictatorship of the elders, President João Lourenço has raised hopes that power might be more responsive to Angolans' everyday needs.
What has Angola's President João Lourenço, dubbed the “implacable exonerator,” been up to?
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.
After an 11-year wait to vote in my own country, the whole thing took 3 minutes. One week later I'm still waiting to hear who won.
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned, or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.
In 2003, I was among the hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, who marched through London to
Angola is in the midst of a yellow fever outbreak that has caught worldwide attention. Between
Most Angolans are preoccupied with finding and affording basic food supplies and medical supplies required for treatment in dilapidated health facilities.
Africa is a Country asked a group of writers and thinkers what they think the 15+2 trial means for contemporary Angola, which celebrated its independence on November 11.
Twenty-one years ago, “Angolan Sculpture, memorial of cultures,” curated by Marie Louise Bastin in the Lisbon
if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola's state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands.
You’d never know it from reading the US media, but 15 political prisoners in Angola are still in jail.
For one, their original crime: Gathering as a book club and reading the books 'From Dictatorship to Democracy' and 'Tools to Destroy a Dictator and Avoid a New Dictatorship.'
In the Angolan government and its security forces’ violent relationship with its citizenry, they deploy the discourse of peace as a weapon.
The irony and the absurdity that the case against journalist Rafael Marques -- an opponent of state corruption in Angola -- is being heard in a former slave house.
Cultural spaces and historic patrimony have not fared well during Angola's post-war reconstruction and development.