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  • Flag of the MPLA, dominant party in Angola's politics, led by the country's president José Eduardo dos Santos, at a beach in Ilha, a peninsula in Luanda popular for its beaches, restaurants and clubs catering mostly to the city's elite and expat community

  • Fans of Kuduro, the music genre and dance extremely popular among young Angolans, gather to dance outside an event for the release of the new album by the the Vagabandas, one of kuduro's most popular stars, at a movie theater in Luanda

  • Resident of shantytown in the rear end of Roque Santeiro market, a decade ago the biggest open air market in Africa. The market had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium.

  • Beach at Ilha, peninsula in Luanda that concentrates the city's most popular beaches and trendiest clubs and restaurants

  • Backyard party in Marçal, one of Luanda's biggest shantytowns.

  • Construction site of another office tower in donwntown Luanda

  • Shunnoz, one of Luanda's most influential fashion stylists, at his studio in Kinaxixi neighborhood

  • Writer José Eduardo Agualusa, one of Angola's better known writers abroad, at his apartment in Kinaxixi, Luanda

  • Fernando Alvim, one of Angola's most renowned painters and also the curator of the Luanda's Art Trienial, at his house in Luanda. Alvim is also the curator of the Sindika Dokolo's colection, the biggest collection of African contemporary art the world. Sindika Dokolo is a Congolese businessman married to one of the daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos

  • Combatentes Avenue in Luanda

  • Old lagoon taken over by garbage, trapped between decaying buildings in Kinaxixi, one of Luanda's richest neighborhoods

  • Backyard party in Marçal, one of Luanda's biggest shantytowns.

  • Resident of the Roque Santeiro market area roam the empty market on a monday afternoon. The market, until a decade ago considered the biggest open air market in Africa, had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium.

  • Shantytown on the edge of the Roque Santeiro market in Luanda

  • Street sign damaged by gun shots at an intersection in the city of Kuito, still badly damaged six after the end of the civil war the ravaged Angola since its independence in 1975

  • Empty building damaged by artillery shells during the civil war the ravaged Angola since its independence in 1975 until 2002. Huambo, Angola's second city, was badly damaged in fighting

  • Students dodging class along the tracks of the Benguela Railroad in Huambo, Angola's second city

  • Six years after the end of the civil war that ravaged Angola since its independence in 1975, many residents of Kuito, capital of Bié province, still live in buildings damaged during the war

  • Fans of Kuduro, the music genre and dance extremely popular among young Angolans, gather to dance outside an event for the release of the new album by the the Vagabandas, one of kuduro's most popular stars, at a movie theater in Luanda

  • Bullet damaged statues of members of Portugal's royal family in the main square of Huambo, Angola's second city

  • Street corner in Kuito, capital of Bié province, a part of the country still largely ignored by Angola's government reconstruction efforts 6 years after the end of the civil war that ravaged the country since its independence in 1975

  • Candongueiro (Angola's only public transport system) driver and his assistant at Roque Santeiro market, in Luanda. Candongueiros are the vans that make up Luanda public transport system

  • Teacher Adelino Agostinho opened a small school in his house's front yard, in Sambizanga neighborhood, to teach childern who couldn't find a place in the public schools. Most are too por to afford the bribes required to secure a place at the school or to pay the bribes demanded to make the necessary identification documents. Sambizanga is one of Luanda's biggest and most dangerous shantytowns.

  • Kids who live in Roque Santeiro market play amid the empty stalls after the market empties for the night. The market, until a decade ago considered the biggest open air market in Africa, had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium.

  • Thombstone marking the mass grave where victims of what is known as "The May 27th" were buried. In May 27, 1977, the government led by the MPLA, a former guerrilla army turned into a one party state, launched a campaign of mass killings in which an estimated 50 thousand "enemies of the regime" were exterminated, among those many proeminent names of the party during the anti-colonial wa

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