Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Luandino Vieira’s Prison Papers gathered in a new digital archive

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation: Luandino Vieira’s Prison Papers gathered in a new digital archive. “Most of José Luandino Vieira’s fictional work was written during the 12 years in which he was imprisoned following his political activity in pursuit of Angolan independence…. During his imprisonment, Luandino Vieira produced 17 notebooks composed of diary entries, correspondence, postcards, drawings, popular songs, literary sketches, translation exercises, sayings, texts in Kimbundu, news clippings and notes.” Direct link to the archive because I had a hard time finding it: https://luandino.ces.uc.pt/index.php?&id_lingua=2 . (This link goes to the English version of the site.)

Angolans Managing to Pirate Movies with Just Wikipedia / Facebook Access

Because people are innovative, that’s why. Angolans are being given free access to Wikipedia and Facebook — and only Wikipedia and Facebook — and they’re still managing to pirate movies. “Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive.”