November 11, 2025, marks the fiftieth anniversary of Angola’s independence, ending more than five centuries of Portuguese ...

For centuries, black Brazilians and Portuguese descendants of Africa around the globe have danced and sung in celebration of a woman known as Queen Njinga. Their Angolan ancestors carried her name ...

Angola independence was born in violence, its peace negotiated through exhaustion and promise renewed by persistence; ...

JOHANNESBURG – Portuguese rule in Angola ended in 1975, but separatists in one Angolan province want the former colonizers to return. The Portuguese news agency Lusa reported Thursday that a ...

Lisa Åkesson has received funding from The Swedish Research Council for her work on Portuguese postcolonial migration to Angola. Camilla Orjuela has received funding from the Swedish Research Council ...

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa met his Angolan opposite number in Luanda on Wednesday in a top-level encounter between nations whose relations have previously been strained by ...

Angolan Vice President Manuel Domingos Vicente addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz By Andrei Khalip ...

GENEVA, November 22 (UNHCR) - High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal, has addressed leading members of Switzerland's large Portuguese community in an ...

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a ...

Except for a few cooking fires, it was dark when the seven truckloads of Portuguese soldiers came. They took me and many of our village down to the river. I heard many shots, and four men near me fell ...