SU_19:Layout 1 1/9/08 10:22 Page 1 Universo Dancing to the AUTUMN 2008 same beat Why Brazil and Angola are the best of friends Call of the wild Driving ambition Animals return to Sonangol’s fast track OIL AND GAS Kissama National Park to Formula 1 NEWS pages 38-51 SU_19:Layout 1 1/9/08 10:23 Page 2 THE BIG PICTURE CONTENTS Name: Kikongo LANGUAGES Not forgotten: elephants in AKA: Quicongo, Congo, Kongo Kissama park, p24 Cabinda Spoken by: Bakongo Sonangol Department for Cabinda Number of speakers: 1m Communication & Image Name: Kimbundu Useful phrase: “How are you?” Director Mbanza translates as “Unam m’bote?” AKA: Quimbundo Soyo Congo Spoken by: Ambundu João Rosa Santos Numbers of speakers: 2m Zaire Corporate Communications Word fact: The name Angola Uíge Assistants comes from the Kimbundu ngola, Cristina de Novaes, meaning king Dundo Raimundo Vilares Uíge Bengo Caxito Lucapa Name: Umbundu Publisher Luanda Malanje AKA: Umbundo Sheila O’Callaghan Luanda Kwanza Norte Lunda Norte Spoken by: Ovimbundo Number of speakers: 4m Editor Ndalatando Alex Bellos Malanje Useful phrase: “What's Saurimo this?” translates as “Eci nye?” Art Director David Gould Lunda Sul Calulo Sub Editor Kwanza Sul Ron Gribble Sumbe Advertising Design Bernd Wojtczack Bié Luena Lobito Huambo Circulation Manager Benguela Kuito Matthew Alexander Huambo Group President Benguela John Charles Gasser Moxico Name: Tchokwé Project Consultant AKA: Ciokwe, Cokwe, Shioko, Nathalie MacCarthy Quioco, Djok, Tschiokloe istockphoto.com/David T Gomez Huíla Spoken by: Lunda-Tchokwé This magazine is produced for Menongue Number of speakers: Sonangol by Impact Media Letter from the editor 4 Lubango 850,000 Custom Publishing. The views Sonangol News Namibe Culture: The Tchokwé are expressed in the publication are recognised as highly skilled not necessarily those of Sonangol Readers’ letters 5 Namibe craftsman, in particular in or the publishers. Reproduction in Briefing 38 Kuando Kubango sculpture. whole or in part without prior Angola news briefing 6 Cunene permission is prohibited. 40 This magazine is distributed to a COVER STORY: ANGOLA AND BRAZIL 8 Ondjiva closed circulation. To receive a The ties that bind us 10 copy please contact [email protected] Aiding the fight against HIV 16 n Angola more than 40 African languages are spoken in addition to Portuguese. They can be divided into those that are Name: Nganguela A long way from home 18 IBantu and non-Bantu in origin. The non-Bantu languages are a AKA: Nkangala, Ngangala, Cangala Name: Ovandonga minority and spread among the more remote areas of the coun- Spoken by: Vangangela AKA: Ndonga, Ambo André Vieira try. Of the Bantu languages, the largest group is the Mbundu, to Number of speakers: 180.000 Spoken by: Oshindonga, King of the Island 20 which both Umbundu and Kimbundu belong. Our house 40 Ovambo 53 Chandos Place, Big Soba tells all Kimbundu is the language most spoken in Luanda after Number of speakers: London WC2N 4HS Gala opening of the new HQ Portuguese, and has had a most noticeable influence on calao, Name: Zemba 200,000 Tel + 44 20 7812 6400 24 the Afro-Portuguese heard on the streets of the capital. It is the Noah’s Ark in the Park AKA: Otjidhimba Fax +44 20 7812 6413 Heave-ho and 44 root of the words kamba (friend) and candongueiro (informal How Kissama grew again Spoken by: Dhimba [email protected] taxis, deriving from the Kimbundu for “illegal trade”). Umbundu up she rises Number of speakers: 18,000 Name: Oshikwanyama is the native language with the most number of speakers in AKA: Oxikwnyama, Cover: Angolans Baiano and Va va voom 30 A world first at Pazflor Angola. Cuanhama, Kwanyama Bola 8 playing capoeira, picture Ricardo Teixeira steps on the gas Here we show eight of the largest ethno-linguistic groups and Spoken by: Ovakwanyama by André Vieira. Directory 50 the languages spoken by them, in their native regions. Number of speakers: Food glorious food 34 Ana de Sousa 400,000 The dishes of Angola Offshore blocks 51 AUTUMN 2008 3 SU_19:Layout 1 1/9/08 10:23 Page 4 OVERVIEW READER’S LETTERS Winning spirit Dear Sir Congratulations on your article about the Olympic rower Fortunato Pacavira. His story is sensational. We Angolans may be poor but we are rich in spirit and health, and full of desire to win for the country. How is it possible when this kid Pacavira just eats fish and the others eat caviar? Thanks to everyone at Universo. Alex Bellos João Ntyamba Olympic athlete (pictured below) Letter from the editor André Vieira Gateway to opportunity received a grant from the US State Dear Sir Department to attend the Georgetown As one of the participants in the BP-spon- University Senior Leadership Seminar, its Emerging together sored postgraduate Master of Law degree most prestigious programme for senior (LL.M) in oil and gas law at Agostinho Neto business executives. University, I read the recent Universo feature This seminar gave me the opportunity Laying Down the Law with great interest. to meet influential US policymakers in eturning from the G8 Summit in return for oil, is helping with the coun- seabed in Angolan waters. While the article focused on one of the Washington DC and to interact with other Japan this summer, Brazilian try’s reconstruction by sending over In this issue, we look at how Angola more innovative aspects of the Masters participants with similar academic inter- RPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvas thousands of skilled labourers. South is leading the world in implementing the degree, the mock arbitration (pictured), ests who hailed from all corners of the made an impromptu stop off in Luanda. Africa, as the most economically-power- latest technology to maximise efficiency there probably was not enough space to globe. Such an opportunity almost cer- On this occasion he did not leave the ful African nation, is an important trading and production from deepwater fields. devote to other benefits that the programme tainly would not have arisen were it not for plane, but his Foreign Minister Celso partner and political ally. And then there The Pazflor project in Total’s Block 17 will has generated. For instance, directly as a the Angolan LL.M programme. Amorim met with Angola’s Prime Minister is Brazil, the emerging giant of South be the world’s largest subsea separation result of my participation in a public LL.M- In a more general sense, the pro- Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos. It America. network, in which gas and liquid are sep- sponsored Business Ethics Roundtable, I gramme has created a tight-knit network is the third time that Lula has been in In this issue, we have a special report arated in giant vessels on the seabed. Carlos Villalon among the participants who come from Angola since he became president and on the relationship between Angola and Angola’s political stability, which has various segments of the industry, private shows the strengthening of links between Brazil – the two most populous allowed international companies to work law practice and government. The result the two countries. Portuguese-speaking nations. Lula with Sonangol in exploration and produc- China syndrome come home from Beijing with medals or has been enhanced communication, co- It also illustrates a wider point. Brazil emerged from the anti-dictatorship union tion, has had an unintended result – the Dear Sir not, I think all Angolans can be proud to operation and camaraderie among is not a member of the G8, which is the movement of the 1970s. At that time, country this year became the largest oil Thank you be represented by such hardworking com- mid-level legal practitioners in these vari- group of the world’s richest industrialised Angola’s future president José Eduardo producer in Africa. Nigeria, which was for the petitors. ous institutions. countries. But Brazil was given a special dos Santos was himself involved in the top producer, is beset with a difficult colourful and Angolans might consider themselves In short, the LL.M programme has invite to the summit as one of the major struggle against the Portuguese colonial guerrilla insurgency which has caused oil informative to have strengths only in football and bas- given a large group of lawyers and other emerging economies together with India, masters. In power, both men have production levels to plummet. For the articles in ketball, but these articles show our sports industry participants the opportunity to China, Mexico and South Africa. No become less ideological leaders and, foreseeable future, it is expected that your summer scene is wide and diverse. I hope future receive the type of post-graduate legal longer can the G8 ignore these nations – rather than old-style comrades, they are Angola will keep its place as the number edition about stars find inspiration in these stories. education from highly-qualified professors the speed of their growth is helping now practical politicians. As our report one oil supplier on the continent. Angola’s Jaime Morais and practitioners that in the past was only reshape the world order. shows, the links between the countries Sonangol’s success is embodied in its Olympic Luanda available overseas and at a prohibitive Like most of the underdeveloped and are not just cultural and historical – new Luanda headquarters, which recently hopefuls. cost. Thank you for bringing public atten- developing world, Angola has had to rely Angola and Brazil are partners in busi- had a red-carpet gala opening attended André Vieira The stories of tion to this beneficial programme through on the “developed” nations for finance ness, industry and finance. by President dos Santos and an entourage José Sayovo (right), João Ntyamba and your informative and timely article.