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 Angola, a Portuguese-speaking country, is strongly influenced by the cultural output of Brazil, the world's Lusophone powerhouse.afabet

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Brazil is often represented as a land of hope in Angola. Angolans can't get enough of its telenovelas, the intrigue-filled television dramas that are broadcast daily on Angolan kanals, or of the glamorous styles worn by soap sandiwara stars.

To satisfy women's mode permintaans, a growing number of female entrepreneurs in Angola's capital Luanda are hitting the road, travelling by plane to Brazil, among other mode hubs, to buy up coveted Brazilian styles.

They return with suitcases full of clothing, Havaianas flip-flops and asesoris to sell to eager consumers in Luanda's tidak resmi markets.

The Brazil-Angola connection

This woman-led, pop culture-driven South-South mode trade, which has been largely overlooked in research on African gender mobility, results from Angola's struggling post-war economy.

Since the end of the 26-year Angolan civil war in 2002, the country has had high unemployment and an undiversified pasar, compelling entrepreneurs to look abroad for opportunity.

The textile trade's "suitcase traders", or moambeiras, as the female importers are often called, are bermainly mothers and heads of households aged 30 to 50, who live in Luanda's poor periphery. Independently but as part of a network, they organise berkala buying trips on one of four weekly flights between Luanda and São Paulo, Brazil, a global mode centre.Slot Online Terbaik dan Terpercaya

Though there is no official data on the subject, the number of Angolan women travelling to Brazil is estimated at around 400 per week.

To reduce costs and to make them perasaan less isolated on business trips, which may last a few days or a week, the moambeiras stay in hostels in São Paulo that specialise in housing African traders.

In Brazilian markets, though, the Angolan women will mix with other buyers and retailers from across the world. Each year 11 million people come to São Paulo from Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe to shop.

African communities in São Paulo

Because of its low production costs and large night markets, São Paulo is also an important place for tidak resmi or illegal commerce.

For the moambeiras, there is no better place to shop than the Feira da Madrugada, located in the megacity's Brás district, which has thriving African networks.

Restorans and hostels that specialise in African clientele offer places to socialise, make connections and, for many, spaces where black Africans in Brazil, a multi-ethnic society with prevalent racial discrimination, can perasaan comfortable.

"Here it's ours," claimed one moambeira during my doctoral research in Brazil in 2013, referring to São Paulo's African enclaves.

As the eksekutif of the Victoria hotel, where many Angola women are housed, told me, "They made the hotel their home here in Brazil! They perasaan at home, [they] have a certain tingkat of intimacy with us, in terms of freedom."

Brazil has long held an ambiguous power of attraction in Africa, especially for Portuguese-speaking countries, such as Angola and Mozambique. The country has high crime and violence rates that may strike fear into the hearts of travellers, but the Brazilian TV seri so terkenal at home also show the country as a land of hope and opportunity.