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Bié is a province of Angola located on the Bié Plateau in the central part of the country. Its capital is Kuito, which was called Silva Porto until independence from Portugal in 1975.
The province has an area of 70,314 square kilometers and a population of 1,338,923.
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Portuguese back to Angola - Straight through Africa
Bram Vermeulen is in Angola, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In this former Portuguese colony, so much money is being earned that the Portuguese are fleeing the crisis in their own country to seek their luck in Angola.
Portugal sighs under towering unemployment, but in the meantime the economy of Angola - where people speak Portuguese - grows like cabbage. Many Portuguese people therefore come to the African country in recent years to work there. Among these guest workers are so-called 'retornados' - people of Portuguese origin who fled the country in haste around 1975 and now find a radically different Angola than they had left behind at the time.
Not everyone fled. Bram visits an old woman who saw her farm destroyed three times in the civil war. He has always been rebuilt. Her younger sister-in-law grew up here, but fled to Portugal in 1976. Only very brave people stayed here in the jungle. Young people, like my cousins and I, went away. The war was very violent, she says, and furthermore, further study in Angola has become impossible.
It was not really quiet in the years before, because that war started as a twelve-year struggle for independence. After independence, the violence went seamlessly into a 30-year civil war. This has been over since 2002 and the economy has ended up in a grove. There are now rich Angolans, such as the young woman who visits Bram in her huge house in Luanda. A Portuguese designer is busy perfecting the interior.
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The guest workers are very welcome here, she says, because they come to work and create new jobs because of the knowledge they bring. She is optimistic about the new Angola. In the practice of the less wealthy, such as Fundulu the fixer, there is still a lot to improve. Flowing water in the house would be nice, and reliable electricity. He tells this while he maneuvers a car through the chaotic traffic in Luanda. A less patient person could also jump out of his skin. Bram would not be able to save it here, he thinks.
The Portuguese designer also had some trouble with things like this at first. He noticed the enormous gap between rich and poor. But it does have advantages for his work: his customers are so rich that he can fully enjoy himself in the interior design.
The reconstruction of Angola is largely carried out by foreign companies. Not only in Luanda, but also in the city of Kuito, in the middle of the country. Immediately after the war there were only ruins there, says the mayor. A ghost town, with parks full of graves. The dead are now gone and new housing blocks are building up. Partly built by Portuguese contractors, who can not find any jobs in their own country.
Episode 8. The lost paradise
Bram Vermeulen visits Angola, one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Business is booming in this former colony of Portugal, so that many Portuguese flee the crisis in their own country to seek their fortune in Angola.
Director: Doke Romeijn and Stefanie de Brouwer
© VPRO October 2014
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HUAMBO, ANGOLA
Mais imagens de Angola, desta vez só do Huambo, num período de 10 anos, desde 2006 até 2016... Nota-se a recuperação depois da guerra, apesar de ainda haver muito trabalho a fazer... Entretanto já se vislumbram mudanças...ficamos a aguardar e esperar que a vida dos angolanos possa realmente melhorar...!
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Post civil war Angola - Straight through Africa
Bram Vermeulen travels along the old front line of a forgotten war, in the hinterland of the most expensive city in the world. What does the rest of Angola notice about the oil and diamond dollars that flow to Luanda?
It is the most expensive city in the world. Renting a two- or three-room apartment costs you six or seven thousand US dollars a month here. New York? No, Luanda, the capital of Angola. The skyscrapers have sprung up like mushrooms in recent years and along the water there is a brand new promenade. Bram looks his eyes out. What a difference with six years earlier!
Angola was recently a poverty-stricken country, devastated by a civil war that began when the country became independent of Portugal in 1975 and which ended in 2002. Now the oil money is pouring in, and diamonds also bring in money. The economy has grown by more than 11 percent a year since the end of the fighting. This is clearly visible in the center of the capital, but what about the rest of the country?
The train track is in any case beautiful. Completely restored, thanks to China. And a train passenger tells Bram that Angola is now a new country, albeit in an embryonic phase. And indeed, traces of the civil war can still be seen everywhere: a rusted tank, a derailed train, countless ruins full of bullet holes. Mine fields that have to be stripped centimeter by centimeter of their explosive charge. And victims of violence, who lack limbs.
The war was eventually lost by Unita, a movement that fought with support from South Africa and the US against the Marxist government of the MPLA, when their leader Jonas Savimbi was killed. Yet Unita still has many supporters in the city of Huambo, where Savimbi lived.
Unita has not really lost the war, one of them thinks. Because Unita always stood for a free market economy and free elections. The MPLA wanted something else. And what do we see today? Exactly: a country where the free market rules, and democracy. Unita has won in a certain way.
End well, all right? There is something to wonder about that. Only 20 percent of the population benefits from the new wealth, says the brother of the famous doctor David Bernardino, who was murdered in the war. The rest of the people are poor and live, for example, in slums, or meager huts in the countryside.
Life is tough here, say the young players of a football team. They each have only one leg, so that makes it extra difficult to find work and seduce girls. But there is no point in fostering resentment, a boy thinks. I will have to live without that leg, and do the things that I can do.
Episode 7. Behind the skyscrapers
Bram Vermeulen travels along the old frontline of a forgotten war, in the hinterland of the world’s most expensive city. What does the rest of Angola see of the oil and diamond dollars that are flowing into Luanda?
Director: Doke Romeijn and Stefanie de Brouwer
© VPRO October 2014
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VPRO World Stories:
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VPRO VG (world music):
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