This extract, on the development of kuduro in Luanda, is the seventh in a series of 10 weekly excerpts from the book.

Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola.

The death of kuduro artist Nagrelha has most rattled Luanda’s social fabric and drawn what may be the largest crowds Angola has ever seen.

Kuduro was recently portrayed on a Brazilian Sunday night TV show called ‘Central da Periferia’ [Periphery Central], where the reporter Regina Casé searches for marginal cultural movements in the ...

Killamu is a second-generation kuduro beatmaker. He was too young to be part of the first wave, in the early to mid-1990s. But by the time kuduro started to truly dominate Luanda's musseques in ...

Kuduro is the infectious, pulsating music and dance that races along at about 140 beats per minute. It's the sound that moves the southwestern African country of Angola. A group called Os ...

More wild kuduro live from Angola via Akwaaba. Benjamin Lebrave writes from Luanda about Os Mais Potentes' song "Vem Ca," which he says is hugely popular there at the moment.

Kuduro singer Agre G appealed this Wednesday in Luanda to Angolans to improve their true talents, so as to be successful in their choices and tasks.

The younger generation Kuduro music singer Nacobeta died on Monday morning in a hospital, in Luanda, victim of an illness, a relative of the artist informed.

Luanda, Angola, isn't an easy place to be transgender, but there's no better place to be a kuduro artist. Twenty-six-year-old Titica is both. The singer was born Teca Miguel Garcia in Luanda, the ...

Kuduro was recently portrayed on a Brazilian Sunday night TV show called ‘Central da Periferia’ [Periphery Central], where the reporter Regina Casé searches for marginal cultural movements in the ...