This is Angola's Palácio da Assembleia Nacional, built in 2015 to house it's government
Why do Africans keep building infrastructures similar to the old and glorious european buildings, meant to simbolize the country's wealth and power while the europeans themselves, and the rest of the "civilized" world build giant walls of uncultured glass?
jews
africans are cucks
terrible kitsch
That doesnt look european at all
They evolved their culture, unlike europeans who are devolving because of their minorities
It looks pretty good actually
My dicks bigger than that
LOK
Unironically for the exact same reason as countries like the US or Argentina moved towards grand Neo-classic buildings for their governments in the later half of the 19th century, to provide themselves with some symbolic varnish of tradition and legitimacy. Much of Africa is no less a product of colonialism than the Americas and just about as appropiate in any region which lacked traditions of monumental architecture.
*this style of architecture is just about as appropiate in any region...
Maybe in a meta sense, as in the quintessential kitsch. Which is precisely what makes it absolute garbage in an unironical sense.
>copy the colonizers
>evolve
my sides
Because niggers are always 1000 years behind
Hopefully while the west degenerates, the Africans will be recreating the glorious past Christian societies.
I'd relocate there if they managed it.
hopefully they'll be as racist as the west and nuke europe
This user is right. What's the point of building this shit when you have no history with it at all and it's literally. This shit is basically "we rebelled from our colonial masters but we still suck their dick A LOT. Even moreso post independence then before it".
It's vanity project and nothing more.
Christianity is a plague in Africa. Basically killed all native spiritual and local beliefs systems (both morel and religious) to be replaced with a religion that was preached to them to enforce slavish devotion and adherence.
Basically compare the Japan to the Philippines and you'll know what I mean.
He's not right and I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing the Kara Boga meme, independently evolving an all encompassing tradition is a ridiculous demand, moreso when one of the basic tenents of Western institutions is universalism, which most people in this board blithely ignore. Thus scientists work for all mankind as a matter of ethos,
Africa doesn't have to develop its own philosophy of science, much less alternative timeline type technology, to be independent in terms of ancestral tradition and East Asia's embrace of Western science is a good example of this.
Very few peoples in the world (Mesoamericans, Andeans) have independently developed civilization without the benefit of old world cultural transmision and at this point of history it would be wasteful to try and do so, this is on par with SJWs who believe the West should somehow act under the Star Trek prime directive and allow the Muslim world to, somehow independent of the West, go through its own version of the renaissance and the enlightenment, meaning we can't criticize their treatment of women for at least the next few centuries.
Sure, it would be nice if they tried something new or at least borrow from the continent's own advanced civilizations, but ultimately this is as legit as their using European languages, it is default culture for them because of colonialism and globalization.
There is nothing kitsch about it
that building is literally just aping Portuguese classic architecture with none of the context, soul or actual history.
It's basically a fucking Chinese Eiffel tower.
I and that user never said anything about independently evolving. It's just that Euros have been out of the consent for decades yet people are still mentally colonized as fuck to the point people are fighting over which Euro language the speak. People always deny the sheer impact that imperial rule had on local people and cultures but man it's just so extremely blatant.
Imagine if X group in the Balkans use the fact that they were more favoured by Ottomans to make themselves feel superior to other Balkans people they were under Ottoman rule and that said X people use it as a point of pride?.
Looks cool I guess
>none of the context, soul or actual history.
The same goes for the Americas at least the Angolans had the good sense to do something that's somewhat plausible colonial architecture and didn't go the white marble route.
The other one is you're making the asumption they don't own Western culture, if you're educated ina Portuguese school using Portuguese textbooks and read Portuguese literature as an adult what do you expect? american rap culture? Obviously whatever is their own traditions/taste mixes up with the European but if their people never had a tradition of monumental architecture the Euro side will obviously come out stronger, at least they avoided giant elephant statues and native masks and shields all over the place, a building that looks like a giant convention hall for safari hunters wouldn't exactly have been better.
Angola was Portuguese for 500 years.
Hunting lodges are maximum comfy
Angola wasn't uniformly owned by Angola.
Like so many sepal elsewhere in Africa many places simply just had a power say "this is ours" and then have little to no presence at all in an area until much later.
Some places in Angola had contact for centuries and other places only had it in the 1920's or even less.
>, if you're educated in a Portuguese school using Portuguese textbooks and read Portuguese literature as an adult what do you expect?
Most Angolans don't go to school or go to school long enough for it to really matter at all. Also they could've have used countless other styles or hell maybe make a building based off indigenous architecture with modern international/Portuguese influences
>Obviously whatever is their own traditions/taste mixes up with the European but if their people never had a tradition of monumental architecture
Kingdom of Kongo existed user (As well as simply using a lot of local influence for your buildings).
All these construction projects in Angola is just graft for the ruling class.
The difference between the say this building and say the ones the Italians built in Asmara is that both were built by entities that wanted to showboat and showoff. However in Italy's case they were like "We got a blank slate Massimo lets try something really different we can't do in Rome (cuz Rome has little space to build new stuff in)" rather then what dos Santos the prez" thought up of. Guess which one is gonna be retain it's iconic presence and which one is gonna be "their".
Look at the old building Angolan Parliament and you'll see how it's Art deco aesthetic actually gives it an identity.
I'm pretty sure the capital of Angola was under Portuguese control for 500 years
lol
What are you LOLing about it was built in 1576
>Basically killed all native spiritual and local beliefs system
This is a good thing.
Lets depopulate the country and make it Angloa with mass migration
If you meant pictured it does look a bit generic tbqh, same as most of what I've been able to see from Asmara in a quick search, they have modernist architecture just like that in South America and we've even got some of the tamer stuff in North America. I get it why some people like it, IMHO it was never that good and aged badly but while it might work for a scenic residential neighbourhood or old commercial district it doesn't quite work as a city's hallmark style or for government buildings and this is what the Angolans may have been thinking of
Here's another look at their national assembly building, it's not quite as bad really.
*vomits*
And this is Mexico's art deco supreme court to compare
>that building is literally just aping Portuguese classic architecture with none of the context, soul or actual history.
Mate Angola was a Portuguese colony for over 400 years, according to the 2014 Angolan Census 41% of the population is catholic and 38% is protestant, 71.15% of the population aged 2+ spoke Portuguese at home and if we only take those aged 5+ the figure goes up to 78% and that doesn't include people that learnt Portuguese later in life, even a poll in 1995 in Luanda showed that 99% of Luandas were able to spoke Portuguese
angolans aren't fucking portiguese, is that too difficult to understand?
This is why Western culture should be preserved but white people should dissapear
Chinks are doing same thing. We have too many cultural marxists in the west.
they aren't
Then prepare to be speared and eaten on sight, naive nethercuckold. Africa will only ever be livable once all the Africans are dead.
Rwanda says otherwise