Our Beautiful DarknessOur Beautiful Darkness

"Our Beautiful Darkness takes place in Luanda, the capital of Angola, towards the end of the civil war that lasted for almost three decades after the southwest African nation's independence from Portugal in 1975. The war claimed between 500,000-800,000 lives, most of them civilians, and left Angola in poverty, with such of its farmland unusable because of land m ines. For years, the country's vast oil and mineral resources, including diamonds, were squandered on armies and weapons rather than invested in modern infrastructure, health, and education"--from Translator's Note.