To ignore what happened to Angolans in the 1970s, in the name of leftwing discipline and unity, is a dangerous betrayal Over the centuries Europeans of various strains have tried to fulfil their fantasies in Africa. I should know because I'm one of them. Not that I have ever nursed urges to convert and conquer, trade and enslave, or paternalise, dominate and discriminate. But when I set off to Angola...
With the contemporary art scene on the continent flourishing, The Culture Trip suggests some of the people worth watching Exiled from Zimbabwe after producing an unflattering portrait of the countrys president, Robert Mugabe, Kudzanai Chiurai , the first black artist to get a BA in fine arts at the University of Pretoria, has become an important figure in African art. Chiurai uses dramatic multimedia...
Passenger on British Airways flight on which Angolan man was being deported says he begged for help about 50 times Jimmy Mubenga, the 46-year-old man who died on a plane while being deported from the UK by private security guards, begged for help around 50 times, according to a member of the public who witnessed the struggle that led to his death. At the inquest into Mubenga's death the jury at Isleworth...
Inquest hears jokes deriding blacks, Asians and Muslims when G4S officers are asked to read from their mobile phones A G4S security guard who was restraining an Angolan man who died as he was being deported from the UK had 65 racist jokes on his mobile phone when it was seized by police. Terry Hughes, one of three detention custody officers in charge of Jimmy Mubenga's forced deportation in October...
My friend Dr Jane Wilford, who has died aged 67 after suffering from breast cancer, had two distinct careers: first as a journalist working mostly in Africa and later as a successful doctor specialising in occupational health. She was the eldest of three daughters of a British diplomat, Sir Michael Wilford , and his wife, Joan: her childhood homes were in Berlin, Paris, Rabat and Beijing. Following...
An Angolan journalist, Domingos da Cruz, is facing trial on a charge of inciting civil disobedience in a newspaper article he wrote four years ago. The article, headlined "When war is necessary and urgent", was published in the independent weekly, Folha 8, in August 2009. It accused the president, José Eduardo dos Santos, and his party, the MPLA, of being authoritarian, corrupt and...
father-daughter kleptocracy' Human rights activists have accused Mariah Carey of accepting a $1m (£600,000) fee to play a concert for Angola's "father-daughter kleptocracy". The Human Rights Foundation claims that, by performing at a recent benefit for the Angolan Red Cross, the singer was accepting "dictator cash". On 16 December, Carey flew to Luanda, Angola's capital, for a headline appearance as...
s famished Ethiopia of 1984 has become a nation achieving 93% GDP growth in six years, finds study "Dawn. And as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the 20th century. This place, say workers here, is the closest thing to hell on earth." That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for...
s mosques amid reports of violence and intimidation against women who wear the veil. The Islamic Community of Angola (ICA) claims that eight mosques have been destroyed in the past two years and anyone who practises Islam risks being found guilty of disobeying Angola's penal code. Human rights activists have condemned the wide-ranging crackdown. "From what I have heard, Angola is the first country...
s journalists look for in a story from the African continent? How about a 71-year-old dictator who's presided over an oil-rich country for 34 years, lining his family's pockets with billions of dollars, and who extinguishes his opponents by torturing them to death and feeding their bodies to crocodiles? It's almost too good to be true – a cliche of the African state to have foreign correspondents drooling....
s image as a booming economy. Children as young as nine are digging wells to fetch water, amid a severe drought in southern regions of Angola that has forced people to use unclean water for consumption and cooking, according to the UN . Neighbouring Namibia, which has also been badly affected, has declared a drought emergency and appealed for humanitarian aid. Angola has done neither, although it has...
s top generals in the latest instalment of a multimillion-pound high court battle. The case so far has heard evidence on themes ranging from arms deals to diamond trading, and has included bizarre stories, such as the destruction of a crucial document that was lodged for safekeeping with Russia's chief rabbi, Berel Lazar. In the latest episode, General Manuel Hélder Vieira Dias Jr – known General Kopelipa...
s police had been holding a 17-year-old boy in solitary confinement without visitors or access to lawyers since mid-September . Manuel Chivonde Nito Alves, the teenager in question, was charged with defamation and arrested on 12 September in the capital, Luanda. Not long before, he had visited a printing shop where he ordered 20 T-shirts to be printed with the words "Ze Dú/ Out/ Disgusting/ Dictator"....
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s armed forces, the head of the president's civil office, governmental business associates and three private companies. The lawsuits were triggered by Marques's book, Diamantes de sangue: corrupção e tortura em Angola (Blood diamonds: corruption and torture in Angola), which was published in Portugal in 2011. The book alleges more than 100 cases of serious human rights abuses by military personnel...
to the extent it was our responsibility' David Wood, the head of the Home Office's immigration enforcement, has given a qualified apology to the family of Jimmy Mubenga, the Angolan asylum seeker who an inquest jury last week ruled was unlawfully killed by three G4S escort guards. Wood told the Commons home affairs select committee that the inquest jury had found that Mubenga's death while being forcibly...
s phone. His number had flashed up and she rushed for it, thinking this was the call he promised he would make when he arrived in Angola after losing a long deportation battle. When she heard the unfamiliar voice on the phone, telling her it was the police, she dropped it in shock. She knew something terrible had happened, and she was frightened. She asked her brother-in-law to come round; he called...
scene When one of Nigeria's biggest media moguls began collecting contemporary African art three decades ago, he was one of the few Africans in a niche market dominated by western connoisseurs. But as African art becomes more sought-after globally, that is rapidly changing. "Some of the things I bought just for aesthetic pleasure years ago are now worth millions," said the wealthy businessman, who...
s death were made public in a Guardian investigation shortly after his death. A subsequent investigation by the paper into forced removals exposed wide concerns among guards about the restraining techniques used during deportations. Returning the verdict after four days of deliberations, the jury foreman at Isleworth crown court said: "Based on the evidence we have heard, we find that Mr Mubenga was...
s inquest has shed light on the murky world of the privatised deportation business The inquest into the death of Jimmy Mubenga uncovered a shocking story of a cruel deportation system, of racism and inhumanity, and of a state seemingly unwilling to prosecute those who abuse and misuse their powers. The verdict of unlawful killing is an honest reflection of the evidence heard. Mubenga died on 12 October...