´forging networks without borders´

tremble, fear, excitement, strangers, food, beer, sounds, scenes and everything else you could probably imagine to this endless list of subjective but yet universal experiences. luanda, a capital city of angola, the world´s most expensive city, and yet stark contrast of poverty and wealth. if you survive as an artist in angola you have to be connected to foreign countries for funding, or your uncle is a board member of many local giant corporates such as oil, engineering, import/export etc...

anyways, besides the gloomy picture i just drew above, people of luanda are quite friendly people. there is no stress of walking alone at night in the middle of the city here, unlike cape town, where i have to be conscious of which routes i take to leave long street or when i have to be at the taxi rank. there is a very strong sense of togetherness, "hanguilla" (power to the people) is a common daily greeting term of togetherness...

i had a wonderful reception from the locals, regardless of the fact that english is not popular at all here, they still received me with joy and ubuntu as i know it, and this was touching, given the current state of affairs in south africa with regards to ´black africans´ yes ´black africans´... ´hanguilla´

well, i won´t say much for now as power failures are everyday reality here just like they are in south africa, but then understandably so, they are recuccitating the whole country as they just came out of their hopefully last war...