Music
Semba: the Angolan rhythm behind kizomba and the songs of independence
Semba is a dance music from Luanda that rose in the mid-twentieth century and became tied to Angola's…
kizomba
Arts + Culture
From Luanda’s parties to dance schools in Lisbon and London: how kizomba grew out of semba
Kizomba emerged in Angola in the late 1970s and 1980s as an evolution of semba, softened by the…