The Angolan childhood of Jos\u00e9 Adelino Barcel\u00f3 de Carvalho alias Bonga<\/a>, in the mid-1940s, was cradled by three types of education: a colonial version, dominated by the Catholic Church; a street version, which forged his character; and an education in the courtyard of his family’s home in Kipiri, where he forged his social and political conscience and his aptitude for love and revolt. It is precisely to this tender and friendly place that the Angolan legend wants to pay tribute with a new album entitled \u201cKintal da Banda\u201d (\u201cThe Courtyard of the Place\u201d), scheduled for release on the iconic Lusafrica<\/a> label. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Forever the standard-bearer of semba, the national genre whose legend he partly created, the singer will resurrect the flavors and memories of his childhood in various songs, tackling themes such as gastronomy, the bush, everyday acts of resistance and benefactor solitude. In “Ti Zuela”, the first single from the album, his recognisable raspy voice humorously evokes “the eternal talkers who end up speaking essential truths<\/em>“. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet even today from his Lisbon home, the man remains deeply militant: \u201cI sing back to the negative movement of the planet<\/em>\u201d, he says. \u201cAs long as malicious people – European, African, Chinese\u2026 – will lead the world, I will take the microphone to counter them<\/em>\u201d. A habit, for the man who recorded the revolutionary album Angola 1972<\/a><\/em> in exile in Rotterdam. However, when he gets angry, it is now with more restraint… “I don’t want to get angry anymore, it’s to the detriment of my health<\/em>“, he jokes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kintal da Banda<\/em> by Bonga, out on February 18 via Lusafrica. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Listen to “Ti Zuela” in our Songs of the Week playlist on Spotify<\/a> and Deezer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n