The Incredible Hulk
What has Angola's President João Lourenço, dubbed the “implacable exonerator,” been up to.
Articles by
Marissa Moorman
Marissa Moorman is on the Editorial Board of Africa is a Country. She is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University.
The low bar for African elections
Angola is Exhibit 1,000,003 on how and why the West judge some elections "free and fair," and others not.
Opening Angola’s past to public debate
The stories of those who fought on the frontlines, were imprisoned or wanted to establish real democracy after independence in Angola.
The long short history of Angola-Israel relations
Hostile at first, in the wake of the Cold War, Israel-Angolan relations have morphed into a friendly and lucrative bond.
The deep economic and political crises in Angola
Most Angolans are preoccupied with finding and affording basic food supplies and medical supplies required for treatment in dilapidated health facilities.
President dos Santos and the ruling MPLA: Afraid of Angolans
if Luaty Beirão dies in jail on their watch, Angola's state will have a much bigger problem than small protests on their hands: One sign reads “15+1+2=24.3 million” (Angola’s total population).
#Free15Angolans: An update
You’d never know it from reading the US media, but 15 political prisoners in Angola are still in jail.
What you need to know about #free15Angolans
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.'
Angolan Cinemas: Past and Present Tense
The photo that graces the cover of Angola Cinemas by Walter Fernandes and Miguel Hurst (a
Nicholas Kristof Discovers Angola
This is now our eleventh piece on Nicholas Kristof. This needs to end. He has to stop somehow.
Photo of the Day: Rafael Marques’ new book distribution model
Members of the public barred from the court room of Rafael Marques’s trial for defamation today.
#WhiteHistoryMonth: White settler states and secret police forces
Counter-insurgency strategy is a global business. Such is the story of the ‘flechas’ (arrows). Begun in