LUANDA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - It's a warm humid afternoon in Luanda Bay - an urban waterfront on Angola's Atlantic shore. Pairs of dancers in close embrace sway their hips from left to right and shuffle ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dino D’Santiago is whipping up the audience with the ferrinho. The musician and rapper plays the instrument, a ...

Luanda — At least 22 candidates, including six females voices,will participate in the final of the 6th edition of Kizomba music festival of Angola dubbed "Feskizomba Angola 2013", set for August in ...

A short lesson in Angolan music from Isacorreia: “Semba is a typical Angolan genre rooted in traditional carnival rhythms, such as kilapanga, rebita, kazukuta and kabetula…Kizomba is a new Afro style ...

This music encapsulated the moment. It is synthed up, but its smooth, tropical sound made it danceable and possible to play when acoustic and electric instruments were few and far between. The older ...