Online politics in Angola
In Angola, the ‘pseudo-event’ is all the rage: small in meaning but enlarged by Facebook and cell phones.
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Marissa Moorman
Marissa Moorman is on the Editorial Board of Africa is a Country. She is a Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Reverse Colonization
How the economic crisis in Portugal has sent the Portuguese to the shores of former colonies in search of employment.
Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media’s pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
Angolan Solutions
Rafael Marques de Morais, despite being labeled a foreign agent by the Angolan state, has always insisted that Angolans need to resolve their own problems.
Rapping in ‘Father Banana’s Country’
The challenge of creating anti-commercial rap in Angola: a market with bling, swag and surly sisters.
Rock Angola
Rock music has been popular in Angola since the late colonial period and forms part of a complex urban soundscape in the country.
Luanda is Expensive
Those who pay the highest price for the high cost of living in the Angolan capital are not expatriates, but Angolans.