Luanda 1960

: The construction of high-rise apartments and cinema halls like the Cine-Teatro Nacional .

By 1960, this system was fraying at the seams. There was a tiny, privileged class of Assimilados who lived in the city center, worked as civil servants or lawyers, and dressed in European suits. They were the "showcase natives," used by the regime to prove the success of Lusotropicalism—the academic theory that the Portuguese were benevolent, non-racist colonizers. luanda 1960