Working the System offers key insights into the politics of the everyday in twenty-first-century
dominant party and neo-authoritarian regimes in Africa and elsewhere. Detailing the many …

Since the end of the Angolan conflict in 2002, the ruling Movemento Popular de Libertação
de Angola (MPLA) party has been promoting a 'master narrative'of 'peace and …

While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their
relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often …

This article discusses citizenship and belonging with reference to processes of post-war
state formation, namely: the MPLA's political hegemony and the centralisation of power in …

This article investigates how an existing two‐tiered land tenure system creates a hybrid
space that blurs, and essentially questions and problematizes the boundaries of the …

Since its inauguration in 2011, the New City of Kilamba has become one of the most
emblematic examples of the Chinese-funded spectacle of reconstruction in post-war Angola …

Since the end of the war in 2002, Angola has been fêted as a miracle of postwar
reconstruction and economic growth. Under the leadership of President José Eduardo dos …

Since the end of the war in 2002, Luanda has become an iconic site of urban transformation
in the context of a particularly entrenched oligarchic regime. In practice however, urban …

ResumoA reabilitação de líderes falecidos é um fenómeno saliente na África Austral, onde
as memórias das lutas de libertação suscitam grandes debates. Depois de uma longa …

With nearly five centuries of history and major war-related impacts in the second half of the
twentieth century, Luanda has recently been subject to outstanding changes that make the …