Angola is Wherever I Plant My Field

by Joao Melo

Genres: Humor & Satire

Synopsis

Angola Is Wherever I Plant My Field

Wit, absurdity, and postcolonial truth collide in a Luanda story of war, survival, and second chances.

A nation forged in fire. A people scattered by war. In Luanda and beyond, lives collide as Angola’s civil war fractures families, faith, and the idea of home itself. A young MPLA guerrilla sent to North Korea punctures revolutionary certainty with a single impossible question. A street kid, haunted by his mother’s murder, learns how hunger reshapes morality on the city’s margins. A wife hides her deafness for twenty-five years. A displaced farmer plants cassava in abandoned ground and harvests a future from dust.

Across interconnected tales spanning decades, Angola Is Wherever I Plant My Field captures the resilience and fierce humanity of ordinary people navigating extraordinary upheaval—where love survives as rumor, laughter turns sharp as a blade, and the cost of belonging is never small. With political satire, intimacy, and hard-won hope, this collection maps a country’s aftershocks through the private truths that history tries to bury.

Release date: January 30, 2023

Publisher: Iska Press

Print pages: 167