An upbeat chronicle of very hard rock in a very hard place, Death Metal Angola is one of the livelier and more enticingly exotic additions to the ever-burgeoning music-documentary sub-genre. An American-Angolan co-production that represents a likably promising big-screen debut for Detroit-born globetrotter Jeremy Xido, this brisk survey of ear-splitting bands in an African country recovering [...]
Nas Being Sued for $10 Million for Angolan Concert No-Show
December 23, 2012 | Posted by
Nas is being sued for $10 million (£6 million) by a concert promoter who claims the rapper is responsible for his kidnapping. The ‘Cherry Wine’ rapper was due to perform in Angola on December 31 2011 but failed to show despite taking the $300,000 up-front payment for the advertised performance. As a result of his [...]
Cuba Injects Doctor Diplomacy into Africa
June 10, 2012 | Posted by
Africa is a growth market for the world’s best-known Cuban brand after Havana Club rum and Cohiba cigars. That would be Cuba Rx, also known as Havana’s doctor diplomacy. A generation ago, Fidel Castro sent Cuban soldiers to intervene in African civil conflicts and fight the Cold War against US proxies. Now, Cuba’s doctors are [...]
Angolan Journalist Shows the Price of Free Press
May 31, 2012 | Posted by
Independent news sources are a rare commodity in Africa’s sub-Saharan region, where, according to watchdog group Freedom House, only 10% of the countries have truly free press. This past December, a census organized by the Committee to Protect Journalists revealed that 47 journalists have been imprisoned in the region, largely for having upset their respective [...]
Brazil Paying Back Its Debt To Africa
May 4, 2012 | Posted by
Africa – Brazil pledged major investment and technology transfer to Africa to repay a “solidarity debt” from a country with a huge black population to the poorest but resource-rich continent. “Brazil must begin to repay the solidarity debt we have with Africa,” former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Thursday, in his first [...]
Angola’s Mobile Services Ahead Of Europe and Many Parts of The USA
May 1, 2012 | Posted by
It is 10 years since the end of Angola’s civil war. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected to grow by around 8% this year. Much of that is due to the country’s enormous oil reserves – it’s now the second biggest producer in Africa. The rapid growth in [...]
