Muxima is the word for “heart” in the Kimbundu language and the name of a popular folk song written by a leader of the Angolan anti-colonialist forces. A “cinematic elegy dedicated to the people of Angola”, his 2005 visual poem traces, throughout its ten Cantos, unavoidable issues within the history of Angola such as the impact of Portuguese colonialism, a thirty year civil war, and another devastating pandemic that continues to haunt the country to this day: the HIV/AIDS crisis.
