Listen to selections from his CD, 'Renascence.' In 1982, during a visit to Portugal, Waldemar Bastos defected from his native Angola, where a brutal civil war was under way. Bastos says he felt ...

Kalaf Epalanga’s debut novel Whites Can Dance Too is a literary ode to music, specifically to kuduro, the sizzling electronic dance music from Angola that his band, the MTV Europe Music award-winning ...

Yeosu — The Angolan singer Juliete Canícia Rodriques "Canícia" announced Wednesday that she will perform her first show this year in the country. Canícia who is part of a music-cultural delegation at ...

As writer and musician Kalaf Epalanga returns to his native Angola, discover a travel itinerary that tunes in to the many sounds of one of Africa’s emerging travel destinations. Angola is best enjoyed ...

Luanda born musician Paulo Flores has won the Angolan National Prize for Arts and Culture. Koluki [pt] takes the opportunity to “dedicate a post to some of his music, focusing on some duets I consider ...

Luanda — The Angolan musician Matias Damásio considered Saturday here necessary to boost, value and internationalize the music made in Angola so as to strengthen the national culture. The artist said ...

A year has passed since an Angolan dance troupe called Fenómenos do Semba released a video of themselves dancing in a courtyard in Luanda to the South African hit song Jerusalema by Master KG. With ...