Angola’s President João Lourenço Had A ‘Profoundly Emotional’ Visit to NMAAHC

By Kevin L. Clark ·September 24, 2021 Updated

Accompanied by his wife Ana Dias Lourenço, Angola’s President João Lourenço toured the Smithsonian African American History Museum on Monday in Washington, D.C. to experience the slavery and middle passage exhibits.

It was President Lourenço’s first time at the Blacksonian, which he marked as a “profoundly emotional” moment in his life.

“The suffering that our brothers went through in the time of slavery touches us deeply,” he said through

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