Sambizanga District in Northern Luanda | |
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| Sambizanga | |
  Sambizanga  Sambizanga | |
| Coordinates: 8°45′26″S13°18′11″E / 8.75722°S 13.30306°E [1] | |
| Country |  Angola |
| Province | Luanda |
| Municipality | City of Luanda |
| Area | |
| • Total | 145 km2 (56 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 244 000 |
| • Density | 16,828/km2 (16,828/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (GMT) |
Sambizanga is one of the six urban districts that make up the municipality of Luanda, in the province of Luanda, Angola.
Sambizanga has a 14.5 km2 area and about 244,000 inhabitants. Limited to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, on the north by the municipality of Cacuaco, in the East by the municipality of Cazenga and south by the municipalities of Ingombota and Rangel. It comprises the municipalities of Sambizanga, Bairro Operário and Ngola Kiluanje. Sambizanga is home to the Progresso Associação do Sambizanga football club of the Girabola and the residential area Avenida Comandante Valódia.
Mercado Roque Santeiro and Mercado do São Paulo are the largest open-air markets in Africa located in the district. [2] The first is no longer existent but the second one still exists.
Sambizanga is a district in the North of Luanda. Its name comes from the words samba and zanga from the Kimbundu language that can also be traced backed to a dance similar to capoeira called where people would fight and compete a lot hence its name. If not the most important, Sambizanga was one of the most important and iconic neighborhoods in Luanda. It matched the importance of Soweto in South Africa, Harare in Zimbabwe and lots of other historic places like the neighborhoods in Accra Ghana. Sambizanga was not only important in a cultural way but also in a strategic way for the revolutionary movements who wanted to fight against colonialism. It was in Sambizanga that they all started seen as it could harbour, transition and mobilize everything and everybody to create its own dynamic. It was also in Sambizanga where the first Cape-Verdean, São-Tomé and Congolese immigrants arrived. It was regarded as a "Bairro" that had a little bit of everything, and that was brought by its youth who was dedicated to sports, studies and music. [3]
It was in Sambizanga where emblematic figures like José Eduardo dos Santos were born and grew up to become some of the most important Angolans in history.
In December 2007, film director Radical Ribeiro began shooting a film in Sambizanga. On 18 December, police mistook actors in Ribeiro's film, who were carrying unloaded firearms, as actual criminals and opened fire on them, killing two. Interior Minister Roberto Leal Monteiro said "We won't rest until police at all levels realise they are public servants." [4] [5]
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Luanda is a province of Angola. It covers an area of 18,835 km2, and had a population of 6,945,386 at the Census of 16 May 2014. The latest official estimate is 9,079,811.
Oliveira de Azeméis is a city and a municipality located in Porto Metropolitan Area in Portugal. Administratively, the municipality belongs to the District of Aveiro. The population of the municipality in 2011 was 68,611, in an area of 161.10 km2. The city itself has a population of about 20,000. Oliveira de Azeméis is located 35 km to the south of Porto. It is less than 20 km far from the Atlantic Ocean. The municipal holiday is the Monday that follows the 2nd Sunday of August.
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José Luandino Vieira is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels.
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Portuguese Angolans are citizens of Angola who are either descended from Portuguese people or Portuguese emigrants permanently living in Angola. The number of Portuguese Angolans precipitously dropped during and immediately after the Angolan War of Independence, but several hundreds of thousands have either returned or emigrated to live in Angola. As of 2022, they make up approximately 0.6% of Angola's population.
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Sambizanga is a 1972 film directed by Sarah Maldoror and written by Maldoror, Mário Pinto de Andrade, and Maurice Pons, based on the 1961 novella The Real Life of Domingos Xavier by José Luandino Vieira. Set in 1961 during the onset of the Angolan War of Independence, it follows the struggles of Angolan militants involved with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), an anti-colonial political movement. Maldoror co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, who was a leader within the MPLA. Sambizanga was the first feature film produced by a Lusophone African country.
Ingombota is one of the six urban districts that make up the municipality of Luanda, in the province of Luanda, the capital city of Angola. Ingombota is home to the central business district of Luanda, Angola. The economic, political and symbolic center of the city and the nation, it is Luanda's oldest district. The district is home to most of Luanda's prominent hotels and office towers.
Rangel is one of the six urban districts that make up the municipality of Luanda, in the province of Luanda, the capital of Angola. The Rangel District is one of the older and more urbanized in Metropolitan Luanda. The district has an area of 6.2 square kilometers. The district is best known as the home of Americo Boavida University Hospital as well as several large sporting facilities including Pavilhão da Cidadela, Pavilhão Anexo and Pavilhão Anexo II.
Maianga is one of the six municipalities of the administrative division of the province of Luanda, Angola. In 2011, as part of a restructuring of Luanda's regional government, the municipality was designated as one of Luanda's six urban districts. The area is one of the older quarters of Luanda and was established before independence. The area is best known for Quatro de Fevereiro Airport and its strong musical culture.
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Avenida Comandante Valódia also known as Bairro dos Combatentes is a residential area neighborhood in Luanda's central municipality of Sambizanga in Luanda province of Angola, and is centered on a busy interchange. It has a length of 1.61 km ² and about 144,000 inhabitants and is split in both ways, it is bordered to the west by Kinaxixi, on the north by Marçal, in the east by São Paulo, and south by Avenida Brasil. It has the following coordinates: Latitude: -8°49'5.88" and Longitude: 13°14'51.36. The neighborhood is known for its office and residential buildings, and is also home to the famous Hotel Tròpico, the renowned 147 public school and the now defunct Feira Ngoma.
The Mercado Roque Santeiro was an open-air marketplace in the district of Sambizanga, in the city of Luanda, the capital of Angola. It opened in 1991 with the official name of Mercado Popular da Boavista; it was named Roque Santeiro after the Brazilian telenovela of same name, aired at the time on Angolan television.
Eusébio de Queirós Coutinho Matoso da Câmara was a Brazilian magistrate and politician, Minister of Justice (1848–1852) and author of one of the most important laws of the Empire of Brazil, the Eusébio de Queirós Law, which suppressed the slave trade and paved the way for its eventual eradication. He was also responsible for the Commercial Code of 1850 that still remains partly in force today.
Artur Nunes was an Angolan musician, composer, and activist. In his time, Nunes was one of the most influential voices and composers in the pre-independence days of revolutionary Angola. Nunes, along with David Zé, Urbano de Castro and many others, was a part of a group of musicians called the FAPLA-Povo Alliance who had the role to spread and divulge awareness to Angolan citizens helping a movement of revolution. He was nicknamed "O Espiritual" due to his expertise in manifesting his feelings in a rather contagious way as if he could communicate with souls.
8°47′22″S13°16′30″E / 8.78944°S 13.27500°E
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