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First exploratory study of gaseous pollutants (NO2, SO2, O3, VOCs and carbonyls) in the Luanda metropolitan area by passive monitoring.

Environmental Pollution
An air quality monitoring campaign for gaseous pollutants using passive sampling techniques was carried out, for the first time, at 25 locations in the metropolitan area of Luanda, Angola, in June 2023.
C. Alves, Manuel Feliciano, C. Gama, E. Vicente, L. Furst, A. Leitão   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Carnival at Luanda

The Journal of African History, 1988
The tradition of carnival-type street festivals and competitive dance troupes appears to be an old one in Luanda. In 1620, at the end of the most serious round of slave wars in Angola's history, political allegory and mimicry were included in the street processions celebrating the canonization of Saint Francis Xavier.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Aesthetics of Belonging: Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda

After centuries of colonial rule, the end of Angola's three-decade civil war in 2002 provided an irresistible opportunity for the government to reimagine the Luanda cityscape.
Claudia Gastrow
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Housing middle-classness: formality and the making of distinction in Luanda

Africa, 2020
As one of the primary personal sites of financial investment, expression and public performance, housing has stood at the centre of contemporary studies of class in Africa.
Claudia Gastrow
semanticscholar   +1 more source

HIV, hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and syphilis among pregnant women attending antenatal care in Luanda, Angola: Seroprevalence and risk factors

Journal of Medical Virology, 2020
Infectious diseases during pregnancy remain a public health concern, especially in a resource‐limited setting. The study aimed to determine the seroprevalence and determinants of HIV and co‐infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV),
C. Sebastião, Z. Neto, Domingos Jandondo, Marinela Mirandela, Joana Morais, M. Brito   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban States: The Presidency and Planning in Luanda, Angola

, 2020
While state institutions are involved in planning and governance in African cities, their relevance in shaping urban life is sometimes questioned given what residents often experience as the extreme incapacity of state agencies.
Claudia Gastrow
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Archives of Luanda, Angola

The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1974
Historians have dimly suspected the long-hidden treasures of the manuscript collections housed in the older archives of Luanda, Angola -the Arquivo Hist6rico de Angola (A.H.A.), the Biblioteca da Camara Municipal de Luanda (B.C.M.L.), and the Biblioteoa do Pago Episcopal de Luanda (B.P.E.L.)-but lack of direct examination of their contents combined ...
openaire   +1 more source

Life in Luanda

1996
Luanda, according to those who knew her in palmier days, was the most beautiful city in Africa. Even the most censorious observer of the squalor I found in 1992 could not fail to discern traces of faded elegance. Conceived by its original architects to enhance the graceful sweep of a wide, curving bay and natural harbour, the city immediately reminded ...
openaire   +1 more source

Luanda

Cities, 2002
Paul Jenkins, Paul Robson, Allan Cain
openaire   +1 more source

Banking on receipts and political declarations: Perceived tenure security and housing investments in Luanda, Angola

Habitat International, 2023
Singumbe Muyeba
semanticscholar   +1 more source