In Europe, Carnival season began in the 1600s as a post-Christmas celebration , when the nobles would host lavish parties and the poor would, in turn, mock high society. The modern-day differences ...

Their sweat-stained faces lit only by a dim yellow bulb in a neglected corner of the capital Luanda, revellers sway their ...

The carnival "represents our identities ... Queen Nzinga Mbande and King Mandume ya Ndemufayo, who ruled in the 1600s and the early 1900s respectively, have both become national symbols of ...