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Buraka Som Sistema: 'We never wanted the African flag thing in our music'

('Nabeelah Shabbir',) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:53:18 -0000

As four men from Lisbon and Luanda set Angolan disturbances to breakbeat music, the European press scrams to box the sound. We have a shot too when we meet the band on one of their tour legs in Paris. After all, they have been on a gradual rise in Europe over the last couple of years

Gonçalo M. Tavares: 'I hate the idea that everything you do is new'

('Kristina Bozic',) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:45:00 -0000

The Luanda-born epistemology professor at Lisbon University, 38, talks his award-winning novel 'Jerusalem', and why it took him so long to get published already

Who are Lisbon's contemporary artists?

('Sophie Paterson',) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Who’s selling? Who’s buying? Who’s organising? Run-down of the unjustified creative pessimism in the Portuguese capital, from Culturgest, ZDB and

Jorge Sampaio: ‘Europe has dropped a beat'

('Daniel G. Ross',) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0000

Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal, on the European dream, a constitution revival and feeling Portugese