Musseques and urban culture -- In the days of bota fogo : culture and the early nationalist struggle, 1947/61 -- Dueling bands and good girls : gender and music in Luanda's musseques, 1961/75 -- "Ngongo jami" (my suffering) : lyrics, daily life, and social space, 1956/74 -- Radi…
Intonations tells the story of how Angola's urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945-74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilatio…
Luanda and the transatlantic slave trade -- Transatlantic encounters: donas, foreign merchants, and the expansion of the slave trade in the South Atlantic -- Feeding Luanda's dwellers and provisioning slave ships -- Selling people illegally -- Meeting the challenges of the trans…
Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the …