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Angola

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Elisangela Rita - National Ambassador
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Poetess since teenage and spoken word artist since 2013. Born in 1988 in Luanda. Graduated in commercial law in South Africa and completed his master's degree in international taxation in the USA.
  • Won 2nd place in the African spoken word contest The Spoken Word Project 2013.
  • Radio host of the "Eclectic FM" radio program on Radio Mais - 2013 - 2015
  • Co-founder of Associação ao Vivo, which organizes weekly open microphone events for poetry and spoken word, for which she hosted the 2014-2016 events.
  • She was a speaker at Tedx Luanda 2014.
  • Represented Angola at the Literary Festival of the Peripheries of Rio do Janeiro - FLUPP 2015 and the Harare International Arts Festival - HIFA in the same year.
  • Also in 2015, published her first poetry book "Coração Achado" published in Angola and Portugal.
  • Has poems published in the female anthology "O Canto da Kianda"
  • Performance (voice) in the Angolan Independence film, also in 2015.
  • Curator and producer of Luanda Slam - spoken word competition in Angola, already with three editions in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
  • Conducting the Spoken Word contest for women 'MUHATU'.
  • Ambassador to Angola and responsible for communication at the CASP - Africa Cup of Slam Poetry
  • Member of Global Shapers Community - Luanda Hub

BOOK : - Coração Achado – Poetry. Chiado Editora, 2015 https://www.chiadoeditora.com/livraria/coracao-achado
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Follow Luanda Slam on social media:
Watch Rita's performance from the slam concert at IF Tchad during CASP 2018:

Hear Rita talk about what slam poetry means for her: 
Fernando Carlos - Candidate 2018

Fernando Carlos, born on June 1 in the municipality of Cazenga/Luanda in 1993, is a young lover of the arts who through theater and children's stories has brought joy to many children. He is an Actor, Playwright, Composer, Slammer, Doctor Clown and Storyteller. Began his art career at the age of 13. As an actor he participated in the musicals of Radio Lac and in several plays, as playwrite, he wrote and adapted for the theater pieces such as: Street Dreams, Issunje, The Year of the Dog, Muxima, Kakulo and Kabaça, The Square of the Tale among others, like Composer is Mentor of the project "CANTAR para ELAS", which brought together artists dedicated to lending their voices to the unpublished children's songs written by him, parts of this project Kizua Gourgel, Selda, Gari Sinedima, Toty Samed and Anabela Aya. Since 2014, he works as a Doctor Clown in the Pediatric Hospital David Bernadino, in a project of the Art and Culture Foundation. He is currently one of the artists of the Minor Company of Children's Theater and Storytellers. On December 20, 2017, he won the SPOKEN WORD champion in the Luanda Slam competition, the battle of Spoken Word Poetry in Angola and will be in Chad for the 1st edition Africa Cup of Slam Poetry November 2018.
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Article about the competition and the winner Fernando Carlos Read article here
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Fernando continues his work: Read another article here
Follow Fernando on social media:
Watch Fernando's presentation here:
Watch Fernando's winning performance here:

Unfortunately, due to logistics, Fernando Carlos couldn't make it to N'Djamena for CASP 2018, but luckily the runner up from Luanda Slam could come. So we were very happy to have Bel Neto with us in N'Djamena. 

Even with a long travel and over night transfer - Bel arrived in N'Djamena Thursday midday and went straight to the Baba Moustapha Arts Center where the group matches were held. 
From the Airtport to the stage !
Watch Bel Neto's performances from CASP 2018
National Competition
Luanda Slam held the third edition of Angola's largest Spoken Word competition on December 20th 2017. 16 slammers competed for the Spoken Word champion title and the winner was Fernando Carlos who now represents Angola in the CASP 2018.
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