Introducing Angolan singer Aline Frazão
Aline Frazão resists Lisbon media’s pigeon-holing practices of post-colonial Portuguese paternalism.
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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.
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.