Antonio Cascais meets African, especially Angolan immigrants in Eberswalde, eastern Germany and speaks about the situation of the relatives of Amadeu Antonio in Luanda, Angola.

Photographs taken in the African Association: Palanca, e.V., Eberswalde, Friday, Dec., 9th, 2011

Amadeu Antonio Kiowa was a contract worker from Angola who lived in Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg. In the night of November 25th, 1990, a group of about 50 neo-Nazi youths carrying baseball bats went through the city on a "hunt" for blacks. They found and assaulted three black men at a bar: two Mozambicans were severely injured but escaped, while the 28-year old Amadeu Antonio Kiowa fell into a coma from which he did not recover. He died two weeks later.

Amadeu Antonio was one of the first fatalities of racist violence following German reunification. Five of the young culprits were convicted by the court in Frankfurt/Oder and received sentences ranging from probation to at most four years in prison. lt was never established who dealt the fatal blow. Amadeu Antonio Jr. never got to know his father: he came into the world a few weeks after Amadeu Antonio Kiowa's death. Today he lives with his mother and his three siblings in the state of Brandenburg. Helena Afonso, the mother of Amadeu Antonio, lives in the poor Rocha Pinto quarter in Luanda Angola. He has also five brothers and and two sisters, who are still waiting for information and compensation for the damages caused by the murder.

Some scenes on the life of Amadeu Antonio’s family in the Rocha Pinto quarter, Luanda, filmed Saturday, Sept., 3rd, 2011, Portuguese language - HERE

Written summary of the the filmed scenes — PDF German language -HERE

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Article by António Cascais on anti-government protests in Angola

manuscript in german language: "Heute Gadaffi - morgen JES" - PDF

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Article by António Cascais on angolan music

manuscript in portugues language: música angolana- PDF

Audio ( portuguese language )

Article by António Cascais on angolan culture

manuscript in portugues language: cultura angolana- PDF

Audio ( portuguese language )

Antonio Cascais in Angola

September 3, 2011: Journalists attacked while covering protest in Angola
Security forces attacked several journalists during the protest in Luanda's Independence Square.

Follow this link ( Engl. language )

https://www.cpj.org/2011/09/journalists-attacked-while-covering-protest-in-ang.php    

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or follow this link ( Portuguese language )

http://www.voanews.com/portuguese/news/Luanda_09_04_2011_voanews-129222758.html    

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September 9, 2011

Interview for Radio Despertar, Luanda

AudioFile (audio - portuguese language (Ribeiro....mp3))

Article on the protests against the angolan regime

german language (Antonio_Cascais _Afrika_Sued.doc)

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TV show "Samstagabend"; topic: Portugal

Antonio participates as an expert in the TV show "Sanstag Abend", produced by German Public tv station SWR http://www.swr.de/

Broadcast: Saturday, March, 19th 8.15 pm until 9.45 pm

Antonio works in Maputo, capital of Mozambique

Topic of his work as a journalism teacher: economic journalism, ethical challenges for journalists covering economical affairs.

Some impressions:

Antonio Cascais with some paticipants of the course "making finance for africa", Maputo, Mozambique, for instance with mozambican TV journalists Selma Marivate and José Macamo

TV show “Planet Wissen”; topic: Portugal

Antonio participates as an expert in the TV show Planet Wissen, produced by German Public tv stations WDR, SWR und BR-alpha

Link: http://www.planet-wissen.de/


Watch the show here (german language ): Part1   Part2   Part3

Here the transcription of the Interview Antonio Cascais gave on the impact of the EU on Portugal: PDF in german language

Mozambique

Antonio’s trip to Quelimane, capital of the mozambican Zambézia Province.

Topics of this prospective trip: Cooperation with sisters Idalina and Justina, editors of catholic “Nova Radio Paz”; Environmental situation in Zambésia Province; Social Security, etc.

Some impressions:

“Mwana machwabu kunkalla buruto!” – (“Among the children of the chwabu people there is no stupidity!”) - This is the key sentence in the local chwabu language, I learned before travelling to Quelimane. Before the trip I consulted my eldest Mozambican friend Daniel Machava. As he was born in Maputo his mother tongue – beside the Portuguese - is ronga and not chwabu. And “as a ronga” - he told me – “I’m a foreigner in Zambésia, like you”. But the people in Zambesia are extremely proud, but also open-minded and hospitable, especially if they hear sentences like this one, formulated in their chwabu mother tongue: “Mwana machwabu kunkalla buruto!” - “If you tell this sentence to a waiter or someone else in the streets of Quelimane you probably will win a new friend and be served like a king” – that was the promise of my friend Daniel Machava, who lives in Europe for more than 3 decades, but visited once Quelimane when he was a young man. Thank you, Daniel, for teaching me this very nice sentence. By the way: It worked!
Quelimane is a seaport in Mozambique. It is the administrative capital of the Zambesia Province and the province's largest city, and stands 25 km from the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais Vasco da Gama, on his way to India, reached it and saw "good signs" that he was on the right path. The town was the end point of David Livingstone's famous west-to-east crossing of south-central Africa in 1856. Portuguese is the official language of Mozambique, and many residents of the areas surrounding Quelimane speak Portuguese. The most common local language is Chwabo, apart from Longwé. Quelimane, along with much of Zambezia Province, is extremely prone to floods during Mozambique's rainy season. The most recent bout of severe flooding took place in January 2007.

Cape Verde:

Antonio Cascais participates in the Shooting for a documentary on Cape Verde. Some impressions

Portugal:

Antonio Cascais reports on the pope’s visit to Portugal (Lisbon, Fátima & Oporto) in cooperation with ARD Studio Vatikan.

Angola:

Antonio Cascais works together with ZDF anchorwoman Marietta Slomka – Germany’s second public tv channel – and SPIEGEL TV (Hamburg) on a 45 minutes length documentary on economical and social developments in Africa

Antonio reports on the still widening gap between rich and poor in Angola…

Still in Angola, Antonio reports on the extremely precarious conditions in Angolan pediatric hospitals.

Antonio’s reports are regularly being (re)broadcasted in European and African tv and radio stations. Listen to a radio report by Antonio Cascais broadcasted by radio Ecclesia, Luanda (Portuguese language)

AudioFile

AudioFile

Cape Verde:

Antonio Cascais works together with Filmquadrat.dok (Munich) and Christian Schidlowski (Berlin) on a documentary film about Cape Verde

See some pictures of the preparation and prospecting tour:

Angola:

Antonio Cascais works together with ARD – Germany’s first public tv channel – on a 45 minutes length documentary on the impact of the chinese presence in Africa.

Please click the image to watch a short excerpt.

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Cabinda

Cabinda, an exclave and province of Angola (a status that has been disputed by many political organizations which consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal).

Antonio’s trip to Cabinda takes place after the attack perpetrated by the independentist group Flec against the Togo football team which participated in the african Football Cup of Nations, CAN - Angola 2010. The attack left three dead, several injured and has led to the withdrawal of the Togo team from the tournement.

Background information article on Cabinda by Antonio Cascais for Deutsche Welle Radio (german language):   PDF german language


Latest “Human Rights Watch” report on Cabinda:   

PDF english language or read article here

PDF portugues language or read article here


Interview by Antonio Cascais with Human Rigths Watch activist Lisa Rimli for DW-Radio (portuguese Language); (24.02.2010)

AudioFile

Report on the 4 new angolan football stadia, including the Chiazi-Stadium in Cabinda, build by the chinese for the african Cup of Nations 2010
(portuguese language); (26.02.2010)

AudioFile

Cabinda - with a population of nearly 150 000 - is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by many political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda. The province is divided into four municipalities - Belize, Buco Zau, Cabinda and Congo.
Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which bounds the province on the south and the east. Cabinda is bounded on the north by the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.


Adjacent to the coast are some of the largest offshore oil fields in the world. Petroleum exploration began in 1954 by the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, when the territory was under Portuguese rule. It is estimated that 60 % of angola’s oil reserves are in deep fields off shore from Cabinda. The territory is able to produce ca. 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Cabinda Oil is associated with Sonangol, Agip Angola Lda (41%), Chevron (39.2%), Total (10%) and Eni (9.8%).

In 1885, the Treaty of Simulambuco established in Cabinda a Protectorate of Portugal and a number of Cabindan independence movements consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal. While the Angolan Civil War largely ended in 2002, an armed struggle persists in the exclave of Cabinda, where some of the factions have proclaimed an independent Republic of Cabinda.

São Tomé e Príncipe:

Antonio Cascais visits the Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa


From the late 1400s Portugal began settling convicts on Sao Tome and establishing sugar plantations with the help of slaves from the mainland. The island was also important in the transshipment of slaves. In the XIX century coffee and cocoa crops were introduced.

Sao Tome and Principe is trying to shake off its dependence on the cocoa crop. Falls in production and prices left the island state heavily reliant on foreign aid. The government has been encouraging economic diversification and is set to exploit the billions of barrels of oil which are thought to lie off the country's coast.

more information on this topic coming soon

Mozambique elections: Antonio Cascais travels to Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Sofala, Zambésia and Maputo provinces:

Antonio Cascais covers presidential elections as well as national and regional parliamentary elections in Mozambique

Frelimo party, in power since it led the country to independence from Portugal in 1975, oficially wins 191 parliamentary seats out of 250 - enough to change the constitution at will. The main opposition parties claim election fraud.

more information on this topic

Nampula, Mozambik: Antonio Cascais is working on several reports about the people's access to micro credits.


more information on this topic coming soon

Luanda, Angola: António Cascais organizes a course on cultural journalism for 14 Journalists from five lusophone african countries.

The program includes meetings with outstanding angolan poets, artists and musicians, as well as visits of museums and galleries. Thanks to DW-Akademie and Goethe-Institut, Luanda...

	Fridolim-Feature "audio-file"
	Gabriel-Feature "audio-file"

António Cascais is preparing several trips to Angola and Mozambik

António Cascais reports on Angola, at the DASP congress (german society for the african portuguese speaking countries), Universität zu Köln, Cologne University, Germany

Read the script: PDF german language




António gives a lecture on Angola at the "Portuguese Club International", Cologne, Germany

Read the script:   PDF portuguese language

Antonio is visiting Mozambik (Moçambique) Nampula
Province & Maputo

Antonio is breathing the exceptional air of Quito, one of the highest capital cities of the world (2850 m). By the way he is researching on the media system of this latin american country.

Please listen to this radio feature in portuguese language:

Ecuador - is the freedom of press in danger?

Ecuador – está em risco a liberdade de imprensa?

(audio (mp3) - portuguese language)    PDF portuguese Language