The trouble with Angola
Angola is the big brother of Africa’s Lusophone nations, so Cape Verde’s win over Angola in AFCON 2013 was greatly appreciated.
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A brief history of five elections in Angola
The specter of Angola's 1992 elections continues to impact the country's democratic process.
Angola’s Forgotten Massacre
Lara Pawson's book about the complex and violent events on and after the 27th of May, 1977: the date of a supposed coup d’etat in Luanda, Angola.
Henry Kissinger’s Angola
In 1975, seeing how a communist victory in Angola’s civil war would boost the morale of Vietnamese freedom fighters, Henry Kissinger wanted to plan a covert operation against the MPLA.
A comunicação social ‘bem comportada’ de Angola
A precariedade da liberdade de imprensa em Angola sob o mandato do presidente João Lourenço.
Nicki Minaj’s Angola
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.
Angola’s Flash Mobs
Should the tipping point against the MPLA - in power since independence - arrive in Angola, there are some activists ready to hit the ground, running.
Musical chairs in Angola
Angola's new president may still chart his own political course against party directives and the interests of the Dos Santos family.
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 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.
Paulo Lara and Angola’s anticolonial war archive
The death of Paulo Lara warrants an appreciation of his and his family’s contribution to preserving the documented history of Angola’s liberation struggle.
The future of Angolan knowledge
Academics in Angola’s public universities are on strike. But instead of only being concerned with the decay of higher education, they are connecting with the struggles of Angola’s working class.
Disco Angola (in New York City)
Putting postcolonial Angola and postindustrial New York in visual touch.
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.
Art and assassination in Angola
A locally produced arts festival creates panic for Angola's authoritarian government, who has, predictably, responded with panic and repression.
Angola’s persistent drought
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
Online politics in Angola
In Angola, the ‘pseudo-event’ is all the rage: small in meaning but enlarged by Facebook and cell phones.
God is a profitable and deadly business in Angola
In post-socialist, growth-oriented Angola, the rich are getting richer and the poor have only their faith.
Nas’s Angola Blues
Nas gets caught up in a musical scandal in Angola. Not how he wanted to make a connection to the continent.
Reassessing Angola’s ‘Implacable Exonerator’
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.