Shopping malls: sign of Angola's rising middle class

Luanda

"IT'S a great joy for Angolans," said Luciano Manuel, nudging his trolley through a huge supermarket in the Angolan capital of Luanda.

During almost 30 years of civil war, "we've never had a supermarket like this - it's an undeniable gain and another sign of Angola's development", he said, combing the aisles of Kero, a local hypermarket chain.