Blog: Caipirinha Lounge

Sara Moreira wrote this brilliant article for Global Voices Online, examining how music has played such an important part in the resistance movements of the Angolan people, both in the late 60s and early 70s as well as right now. It reminded me a bit of an article I wrote a couple of years ago highlighting the charged political leanings of Lusophone hip-hop. Sara's article puts the spotlight on the persecution and violent repression of the movement that has recently been protesting against Dos Santos' three-decades-old rule; the most prominent people in this movement, it turns out, are [...]