Once a site of forced baptisms and brutal control, the museum near Luanda now exposes the trade’s human toll and opens archives that may reconnect families across continents.

With the National Museum of Slavery, Angola has become a destination for descendants of enslaved people to reconnect.

MASSANGANO, Angola — As the sun beat down on us, we slowly walked down the dirt path, stirring up red dust as we headed toward the centuries-old fort atop a hill here. The chatter hushed. The 21 of us ...

The National Museum of Slavery in Luanda, Angola West Africa reminds that when the first slaves arrived in Virginia, they came from Angola. Shutterstock I returned to Luanda, Angola, to film a ...

Celebrated Africanist David Birmingham draws on decades of extensive scholarly research, and the 'accidental adventures' that make up his life as an historian, to offer this comprehensive account of ...

In the early hours of a humid November morning in 1975, the runway at Luanda’s airport was alive with anxiety and the roar of a jet engine. Cabinda Gulf Oil, now Chevron, had chartered a South African ...

Thanks for the story Jan. 23 written by Debi Springer. It was informative and explained the painstaking work of shovel testing now under way to find pieces of a history puzzle. The diagram shown that ...

As I write these lines, I mourn the passing of Carlos Fernandes, a leading queer activist and organiser in Angola. Carlos was found dead in his home earlier this year under circumstances that are ...