A zunga em Angola: entre a kixikila e as múltiplas dinâmicas das zungueiras nas duas últimas décadas

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the multiple dynamics of Luanda's zungueiras over the last two decades. Its focus is not on understanding the country's socio-economic contradictions at a macro level, but rather on broadening our understanding of the structural dimension and how people deal with the phenomenon of zunga. Following a theoretical line of structuralism in studies of societies, we sought to understand the extent to which the Angolan government deals with the socio-economic challenges of zungueiras and their multiple dynamics, including kixikila. The difficulties in obtaining social data on the zungueiras and access to public policy programs to combat social inequality were seen here as fundamental parts of building the research and understanding how complex and ambiguous the zunga phenomenon is in Angola.