Gabriel Paquisi, computer hardware vendor and his Congolese friends drinking at the bar upstairs from the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus.

The best place to sell Coke is in front of a tank wreck.

It’s after 10AM when the bus leaves Huambo for a 422 km drive on the largely destroyed road to Lubango. I’ve seen bad roads in Africa, but none over such a distance than this one. Most damaged roads have potholes, this road is one huge pothole with pieces of tar sticking out, 20 cm high. […]

I’m leaving Huambo from the Praça Nova with one of the little Toyota mini busses, stacked full of luggage. We’re waiting for one extra person to fill the tin to leave. A police patrol walks by and orders to empty the carefully loaded minibus. Everybody has to show his papers. The officer in charge looks […]

The bakery with the largest turnover of all bakeries in the world.

How beautiful is this, the Angolan mascotte for the Palancas Negras at the worldcup in Germany?

Dede and Nguito are working at Photo Diamanta, one of the countless Vietnamese run Konica photo labs you can find all over Angola, where you can go for passport photographs and numerous small computer tasks like word and spreadsheats.
Maybe I should have asked sponsorship at Konica-Minolta…