Family Matters: Creolisation and the Production of a Sign in Luanda (Angola)

Family has become in recent decades the most important social aggregator in
Angola, particularly in the capital of Luanda. It is not that kinship no longer
has such relevance, or that people are not building forms of relatedness in other ways. What has changed, however, is that family has come to be related to
the process of class formation. Since the early 1990s, Angola has been through
a transition from socialism to capitalism as the principal way of organising
the national economy.