Episode 5: Angola — Where Oil and Blood Fed the Same Soil

More enslaved Africans left Angola's shores than from any other territory on the continent. An estimated five to six million people, shipped to Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America over three centuries. The rhythms they carried — Semba — became Samba in Brazil. And Kizomba, born in Luanda's streets during the civil war years, is now danced in studios in Paris, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires.Angola is the seventh-largest country in Africa — oil fields offshore, diamond mines inland, one of the continent's greatest waterfalls hidden in its interior, and a national symbol, the giant sable antelope, that was believed extinct during the war and came back.We eat muamba de galinha — chicken slow-cooked in palm oil and okra, served over cassava funje. We taste cocada amarela, the golden coconut custard that is Angola in a spoon. We stand at the edge of Kalandula Falls as the mist rises. And we learn that the music the world dances to on a Friday night has roots in this soil, in this history, in this people.Angola is still standing. Still dancing. And the queen never surrendered.New episodes every Monday at 7pm. Next week — Antigua and Barbuda.