Kalunga Project

[4] The Kalunga Project was able to provide an avenue for Brazilian supporters to express their sentiments while still connecting with Angolans as part of a community through diaspora.

[1] It is said that more than half of the African people who were transported to Brazil from Angola were from Luanda, making the Angolanidade movement that much stronger.

[6] Musicians that were part of the Kalunga Project played mainly semba music with lyrics that advocated for workers' rights, communism, and freedom.

He had remembered the term in reference to Maracatu dolls Mario de Andrade referenced in his essay “Sorcery Music in Brazil”.

I hope, when I come back here, to find a country also free.”[8] The concerts they had were wildly successful and when it came time for the audience to leave they stalled as long as they could, prompting repression and imprisonment from the Portuguese police (PIDE).

[1] This was a time during the cold war in which the government of Brazil condemned the trip and officially chose not to recognize it for fear of backlash.

Other artists included Edu Lobo, Dorival Caymmi, Clara Nunes, Rui Guerra, and Fernando Faro.