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  • Flag of the MPLA, dominant party in Angola's politics, led by the country's president José Eduardo dos Santos, at a beach in Ilha, a peninsula in Luanda popular for its beaches, restaurants and clubs catering mostly to the city's elite and expat community By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Old lagoon taken over by garbage, trapped between decaying buildings in Kinaxixi, one of Luanda's richest neighborhoods By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Girls leave their home in a street flooded with raw sewage in Marçal, one of Luanda biggest shantytowns By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Shunnoz, one of Luanda's most influential fashion stylists, at his studio in Kinaxixi neighborhood By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Backyard party in Marçal, one of Luanda's biggest shantytowns. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Backyard party in Marçal, one of Luanda's biggest shantytowns. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Kuduro star Sebem at his home in Luanda. Kuduro, originaly a rhythm from the gueto, is the most popular music with young Angolans By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Fans of Kuduro, the music genre and dance extremely popular among young Angolans, gather to dance outside an event for the release of the new album by the the Vagabandas, one of kuduro's most popular stars, at a movie theater in Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Writer José Eduardo Agualusa, one of Angola's better known writers abroad, at his apartment in Kinaxixi, Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Fans of Kuduro, the music genre and dance extremely popular among young Angolans, gather to dance outside an event for the release of the new album by the the Vagabandas, one of kuduro's most popular stars, at a movie theater in Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Empty building damaged by artillery shells during the civil war the ravaged Angola since its independence in 1975 until 2002. Huambo, Angola's second city, was badly damaged in fighting By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Fernando Alvim, one of Angola's most renowned painters and also the curator of the Luanda's Art Trienial, at his house in Luanda. Alvim is also the curator of the Sindika Dokolo's colection, the biggest collection of African contemporary art the world. Sindika Dokolo is a Congolese businessman married to one of the daughter of Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Beach at Ilha, peninsula in Luanda that concentrates the city's most popular beaches and trendiest clubs and restaurants By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Resident of shantytown in the rear end of Roque Santeiro market, a decade ago the biggest open air market in Africa. The market had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Resident of shantytown located in the rear end of Roque Santeiro market, a decade ago the biggest open air market in Africa. The market had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Construction site of another office tower in donwntown Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Thombstone marking the mass grave where victims of what is known as "The May 27th" were buried. In May 27, 1977, the government led by the MPLA, a former guerrilla army turned into a one party state, launched a campaign of mass killings in which an estimated 50 thousand "enemies of the regime" were exterminated, among those many proeminent names of the party during the anti-colonial wa By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Teacher Adelino Agostinho opened a small school in his house's front yard, in Sambizanga neighborhood, to teach childern who couldn't find a place in the public schools. Most are too por to afford the bribes required to secure a place at the school or to pay the bribes demanded to make the necessary identification documents. Sambizanga is one of Luanda's biggest and most dangerous shantytowns. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Combatentes Avenue in Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Shantytown on the edge of the Roque Santeiro market in Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Candongueiro (Angola's only public transport system) driver and his assistant at Roque Santeiro market, in Luanda. Candongueiros are the vans that make up Luanda public transport system By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Resident of the Roque Santeiro market area roam the empty market on a monday afternoon. The market, until a decade ago considered the biggest open air market in Africa, had a vital role in the Angolan economy during the civil war and years of communist planned economy. Authorities want to remove the market to a location 50 kilometers away to replace it with a high end condominium. By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Marçal shantytown in Luanda, home to some of the most proeminent musiocians in the kuduro music scene in the capital By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • School for street kids at Roque Santeiro market offered by Centro Dom Bosco, a school and social services complex ran by Salesian priests in Sambizanga neighborhood, on the edge of Roque Santeiro market, in Luanda By photographer Andre Vieira
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  • Bullet damaged statues of members of Portugal's royal family in the main square of Huambo, Angola's second city By photographer Andre Vieira
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