An Attempt to the Slavery Museum

Before living in Luanda, I did not know this important fact about slavery. Apparently the first black slaves were the ones taken from Angola by the Portuguese back in the colonial days. And that is why sinceever I arrived here it has always been in my agenda to visit this compact and nicely put slavery museum about 30min at the south of Luanda. People here call it: Museu da Escravatura.

So 2 weeks ago, things were carefully planned. We got the brochure of this museum and it is explicitly said that it is open Sat and Sun until 18.00. So that Sunday I was going with my husband and our friends the lovely malaysian couple for a recreational trip to this area outside Luanda which is a very nice area with road on a cliff looking over atlantic ocean.

We did a little bit of swimming, lunch, and then finally it was about time to visit the museum. It was 2.30pm. Although with our limited Portuguese basic conversational level, four of us are pretty sure that the gate guard of the museum said that the museum was open. We even paid the parking fee for Kz350 as everyone is obliged to do so. We parked the car, climbed up to the big rock where the museum is on, and found that the museum was closed! Knock knock knock..  nobody's inside. But there were aparently some people patiently waiting for the door to be opened. And of course it was never opened. *oh how i'm so used to this! hehe.. T.I.A*

We got back home empty handed. The "museu de escravatura" in what-to-visit-in-Angola list was not then ticked. Well, next time....

But, was happy that at least I got a chance to take a photo with these lovely ladies with lovely Angolan national dress. Click click click! :)

Comments

[Regina]

Hi Nadia,

We're going next week, maybe we'll have good better luck!

Cheers, Regina

[nadia febina]

Hi Regina..
Are you? Tell me how it goes! :)

[pandi merdeka]

wow that's cool, do you like history ??

[nadia febina]

@pandi:
dunno... maybe i like history, never really thought about it.. heheeee.. :D