Portugal Dominated Angola for Centuries. Now the Roles Are Reversed.
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
The Estoril Sol Residence in Cascais, Portugal, is often referred to as the “Angolans’ building.”CreditView Pictures/UIG, via Getty Images
LISBON — How the roles have reversed: The colonizer, some Portuguese contend, has been colonized.
On the Portuguese coast of Cascais, where the nation’s royal court used to summer, a new 14-story condominium building looms confidently by the sea. So many of its apartments have been bought by Angola’s ruling class — sometimes a handful at a time — that the development has a nickname: the “Angolans’ building.”
By NORIMITSU ONISHI
The Estoril Sol Residence in Cascais, Portugal, is often referred to as the “Angolans’ building.”CreditView Pictures/UIG, via Getty Images
LISBON — How the roles have reversed: The colonizer, some Portuguese contend, has been colonized.
On the Portuguese coast of Cascais, where the nation’s royal court used to summer, a new 14-story condominium building looms confidently by the sea. So many of its apartments have been bought by Angola’s ruling class — sometimes a handful at a time — that the development has a nickname: the “Angolans’ building.”
