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Comment on Saturday March 3 Field Trip: Catoca Diamond Mine by angolafieldgroup

angolafieldgroup — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:24:04 +0000

If you are interested and serious about going, please send an email to: angolafieldgroup@gmail.com with your name, your company’s name, your position in the company and your cell phone number. In approximately 2 week’s time we will send a confirmation email with exact details including what airport we will leave from, exact times and where and when to make final payment.

Please note that foreigners MUST have their passport and visa in order because of emigration controls both in Luanda and Saurimo. Receipts or letters are definitely not acceptable. You cannot go on this trip without proper passport and visa. All Angola Field Group trips are at your own risk.

Comment on Saturday March 3 Field Trip: Catoca Diamond Mine by Esteban Cambiasso

Esteban Cambiasso — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:12:09 +0000

I would like to join the field trip to Catoca, how should I do ?
gratful for a return
Esteban Cambiasso

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Tako Koning

Tako Koning — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:04:33 +0000

I met Kalunga about five years ago at a lunch at Pedro and Paula Vaz Pinto’s house in Luanda. He explained his background to me and I was amazed to learn that he had lived many years in Canada and had citizenship there and could have continued to live a much more comfortable lifestyle in Canada but chose to come back to Angola since he felt he could “make more of a difference” in Angola than in Canada. His documentary film about Angola’s sable antelopes (Palanca Negras Gigante) re-discovery & protection project was outstanding.
In conjunction with the PaleoAngola project he was documenting the discovery of amazing fossils being found along the coast of Angola by a multinational team of paleontologists. Through his relationship with and the generosity of Angola’s Vida Foundation, he was able to specially order from Canada and import into Angola a full scale, 13 meter long model of the Angolatitan adamastor dinasour discovered near Ambriz in 2005 which is now on display in the Geology Museum of Agostinho Neto University on the Marginal of Luanda. The model and fossilized bone fragments have become the leading attraction of the museum. I am sure that many Angolan students will be visiting the museum in the years to come and marvel at what they see there. So if you want to see some tangible evidence of Kalunga’s goal to bring science to a larger Angolan public and to make Angola a better place, then I suggest you visit the Geology Museum on the Marginal.
His very untimely death is a great loss for many people – his family, the scientific community in Angola and abroad, and his friends.
Tako Koning, Geologist Luanda – Angola

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Wolfgang Knoepfler, CEO Magic Touch Films

Wolfgang Knoepfler, CEO Magic Touch Films — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:03:02 +0000

A few years ago we made contact with the help of the Angola Field Group. We stayed in contact and hoped we could work together over the next few years. I was impressed by his expertise and the enthusiasm he showed. It is indeed a tragic loss for his family, to whom my heart goes out with the wish for them to find the strength to get through these tough times. He will always be remembered and live on in our hearts and minds for his dedication and energy. Safari njema na lala salama.

Comment on In Memory Of Kalunga Lima by Genevra Pope

Genevra Pope — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 11:07:18 +0000

It was with great shock and sadness that we learned of Kalunga’s untimely death. He was of enormous help and support to our family in 2001 when my husband, Alan, visited Angola in search of our son, Jason. Although we knew nothing of Kalunga’s latest documentaries, he will be forever remembered in our own documentaries of that time. Without Kalunga’s help, we would never have uncovered the probably fate of our abducted son and his colleagues. We are forever grateful for Kalunga’s (and Nela’s) kindness at that time. We can only pray that Nela and their children can accept his loss with courage and love. They will always be welcome at any time in our home.

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Justin Pearce

Justin Pearce — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:58:04 +0000

This is sad and shocking news. I met Kalunga for the first time in about 2002 when I was working as a journalist in Angola, and we met up whenever I returned to Angola subsequently. A warmer, more generous, more compassionate person would be hard to imagine. His enthusiasm for devising and undertaking new projects, in the often difficult working environment that Angola presents, was an inspiration. I send deep condolences to his wife, children and parents. I shall miss him greatly. May he rest in peace.

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Frank Candido

Frank Candido — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 04:23:55 +0000

I went to school with Kal in Montreal at Vanier College. I met him when I was merely 17 and he a much older 20 (well at least in those years it seemed so much older!). I instantly liked him. He was a great friend and full of life. Kal was the type of person who would try anything and never allow any barriers to get in his way. I was always so envious of his go and get it attitude. We spent many a night making rice stir fry’s with a few beers. Its been a long time since I have seen him. I reached out to him a few years ago by email. I only wish that I would have had a chance to see him or speak with him. I will pray for his wife and children at this time of tragic loss.

Goodbye Kal,
Your friend,
Frank Candido
Montreal, Canada

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Kelse Alexandre

Kelse Alexandre — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:30:04 +0000

As Angolan I respected his work a lot, and it is a shame that we don’t have more Angolans in this field, so he will be missed a lot by many people, I was crashed when I heard the sad news, so talented so young…

My condolences to his family and hope that his soul rest in peace.

Comment on History by kapitololo

kapitololo — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:12:08 +0000

parabéns pelo belo trabalho que vocês prestaram a angola e a humanidade

Comment on Tributes about Kalunga Lima… by Prof. Dr. Jos van den Broek

Prof. Dr. Jos van den Broek — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:43:34 +0000

We are very sad about this great loss! Kalunga visited us last year, together with his family. We were developing ideas about a PhD project in Science Communication. And now this geat person is gone! Yes, we urgently need people like him to fight for a better world. May his voice still be heard by future generations. Our thoughts are with Nela and his children, and with all his colleagues and friends who’ll miss him deeply.

Jos van den Broek
Science Communication & Society
Leiden University
The Netherlands