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Festival da Independencia Angola in Luanda/nationwide
Angola's national Independence Day, marked each November 11 with official military parades and ceremonies in Luanda alongside nationwide street parties, concerts, semba and kizomba dancing, and traditional meals shared across communities countrywide. The combination of formal military ceremony and genuinely festive nationwide street celebration gives the day a distinctive dual character each year.
Every November 11, Angola marks the anniversary of its 1975 proclamation of independence from Portugal, the culmination of a war for independence that lasted more than thirteen years, with a nationwide public holiday celebrated in cities and villages across the country.