António Cascais participates in the talk show "Causa e Efeito" / (portuguese public tv RTP África), speaking about luso-african movies, actors and directors in the Berlin film festival, "Berlinale 2021".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80wOzr5rO7Q

Antonio Cascais participates in the political talkshow "Presseclub" / "Internationaler Frühschoppen" (german public tv), speaking about the situation in Portugal, concerning the "corona pandemic".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHwXNqqhGo&t=2610s

Selection of documentaries & reports by Antonio Cascais:

"Defeat the crisis with Surfboard and Fado".

(Original title: „Mit Surfbrett und Fado durch die Krise“, german TV NDR 2020, report for the series „NDR Weltreisen“, 30min.)


"Summer in Portugal in times of corona".

(Original title: “Unser Sommer in Portugal”, french-german tv arte 2020, report for the series „arte:RE“, 30 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCk7zkPZs8s

Antonio Cascais' new documentary will have the following title:

"Portugal, the apt pupil of the Troika".

A film with a critical focus on the role of German companies in Portugal...
It will be broacasted on WDR-tv, the biggest public channel in Germany, monday, december, 7th., 2015 form 10 - 10.45 p.m.
Read the WDR press release: (PDF)

http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/dokumentation_reportage/die-story/sendungen/ausverkauf-in-portugal-100.html

Portugal and the Greek depht crisis:  Antonio Cascais speaks with german radio station mdr info: click here

Antonio Cascais' latest documentary on drug trafficking in west Africa is broacasted on arte-tv, the international french-german channel. The shooting of the 1 our lenght documentary took place in Mali, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Watch the documentation here:

German language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmxH4GDeZFY

French language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7O5WlmFoyo


Announcement arte-tv / french: http://www.arte.tv/guide/fr/052701-000/drogue-la-nouvelle-guerre-des-cartels

Portuguese synopsis: A região da África Ocidental transformou-se, nos últimos anos, numa verdadeira “plataforma” de armazenamento e distribuição de drogas ilegais, sobretudo de cocaina.


Os grandes produtores e barões da droga, provenientes da América Latina, “descobriram” que governantes e instâncias de países como o Mali, o Senegal, a Guiné-Bissau ou Cabo Verde (e outros) são "fáceis de corromper". A região da África ocidental é hoje a mais importante placa giratória para a cocaina, cujo destino principal é a Europa, o maior mercado consumidor. Um documentário de autoria de Antonio Cascais.

Estreia: terça-feira, dia 16 de junho, às 21h10, no canal franco-alemão arte (duração 53 min.)

Watch the documentation here:

German language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmxH4GDeZFY

French language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7O5WlmFoyo

"Angolan Oil Price Collaterals" - "Eine angolanische Dubai-Fantasie"
Antonio Cascais writes in IP-Journal about Angola and the effects of the falling
oil price

Since July 2014 the price of oil has been falling an the pain felt in Luanda is
big...

Archived PDF

(The foreign policy magazine IP ( https://ip-journal.dgap.org/en ) appears
in German as a bimonthly print magazine and in English as an online magazine
for German and European foreign policy. IP Journal is the source on important
foreign affairs issues, as well as in-depth analysis on central questions of
German and European foreign policy from renowned authors and experts in and
outside of Germany)

Antonio Cascais writes an article for the german weekly "Die Zeit" on Portugal
40 years after the revolution on April, 25th, 1974.

Euphoria gripped Portugal during the 1974 Carnation Revolution, when junior army
officers swept away a four-decade dictatorship. 40 years after Portugal is a
completely different country...

Archived PDF


April 28th

Today, monday, April, 28th, at 10 p.m., the documentary on corrupt german submarines deals is being broadcasted by german public tv channel WDR.

http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/dokumentation_reportage/die-story/sendungen/geschaefte-wie-geschmiert101.html

Archived PDF


Interview with jounalist Antonio Cascais on the documentary "the corrupt german- portuguese sumaine deal"

http://www1.wdr.de/themen/politik/diestorykorruptionruestung100.html

The documentary on the corrupt german submarine deal is being intensely debated in the german press:

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2014/04/28/korrupter-u-boot-deal-zwischen-portugal-und-thyssenkrupp/

Archived PDF






Documentary about corrupt german submarine deals. The origninal "Geschäfte wie geschmiert – U-Boote made in Germany", broadcasted April, 28th, in german public tv WDR:

http://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/dokumentation_reportage/die-story/sendungen/videogeschaeftewiegeschmiert102-videoplayer.html

A slightly modified version in portuguese language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_n0HGO3m2g


Portuguese press comments the documentary on corrupt german submarines deals

http://rr.sapo.pt/informacao_detalhe.aspx?fid=26&did=146822

Archived PDF






April 2014:

Article about the portuguese revolution 1974 in the weekly newspapaper "die Zeit" german language / pdf

Antonio is making interviews and researches in Angola

Topics:

How do the Angolans evaluate, nearly 40 years later, the decolonisation of Angola, which followed the fall of the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal?

Interviews with several protagonists:

The latest tv documentary by Antonio Cascais is shown on WDR-tv

ThyssenKrupp - the giant company, based in Essen, Germany, is facing troubled waters

ThyssenKrupp is known as one of the biggest steel companies in the world with more than 150.000 employees worldwide. But ThyssenKrupp is losing its positions in the world market: except in one area: the military sector. But now ThyssenKrupp it is facing big troubles: The losses are astronomic: Bad investments in Braszil and the U.S. brought losses of billions. The moral losses are even bigger: the company is involved in different corruption scandals and compliance problems. All this contributed to a very bad reputation worldwide. Tens of thousands of jobs are in danger worldwide. A film by Antonio Cascais (journalist), in cooperation with director Marcel Kolvenbach and a&o production, Cologne. more information on the internet page of WDR, the biggest german public tv channel:

https://www.wdr.de/tv/diestory/sendungsbeitraege/2013/0610/thyssen.jsp

https://www.wdr.de/tv/diestory//team/ cascais_antonio.jsp;jsessionid=81CCF86AFE74DFF677D0029DC9A58141



Article(s) about the Brazil investment of ThyssenKrupp:

Antonio Cascais: researches in Rio



Antonio Cascais: Researches in São Paulo



Antonio Cascais: ThyssenKrupp in Duisburg



Antonio Cascais: Researches in Rheinhausen

Friday, March, 8th, Portuguese construction workers were attacked
by unknown in Berlin and were badly wounded with knifes and sticks. German police an authorities say there was no xenophobic background, allthough the investigations are still in course. The incident took place in the Treptow-Köpenick area, on of the areas of Berlin most affected by the phenomenon of neo-nazism. The workers were sent back to Portugal in a bus four days after the attack. Antonio Cascais spoke with them and published some articles in the portuguese press, pointing the fingers on a reality the tourist guides often avoid.

PDF of onlinearticle on Visão.pt - portugues language

PDF article in Visão magazine, Lisbon - portugues language

Antonio Cascais is working on several stories in Brazil:

Ahead of Brazil World Cup 2014: free English, French and Spanish classes planned for prostitutes.

Prostitutes in Brazil

Cida Vieira, president Aprosmig, Association of Prostitution in Belo Horizonte

German article on dradio.de click here

Listen to the report in german language click here

Antonio is covering the elections2012 in Angola



Sept., 7th, 2012

Interview with António Cascais on Angola (DW radio show with Cristina Krippahl & António Rocha)

click here     ( portuguese language )



Aug., 31st, 2012

DW radio show on angolan elections with Mark Caldwell, editor English for Africa (report by António Cascais & interview with Antonio Cascais)

click here     (english language )


António interviews Rafael Marques, journalist and human rights activist, one day before the angolan elections.

click here     (english language )


Aug., 20st, 2012

report by Antonio Cascais on the "angolan spring", the young opposititon movement

click here     (German language )

Additional Reports on angolan elections, August, 31st, 2012


In the angolan election (August, 31st) President José Eduardo dos Santos wants to extend his 33-year rule – and to entrench an elite that controls Africas's second-biggest oil industry and is fast expanding its hold over the continent’s natural resources. Such is the ruling MPLA - Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola’s hold on power that few predict anything other than victory for Mr dos Santos, despite a Gallup poll last year which found that only 16 per cent of Angolans approved of dos Santos' rule.

For further information please contact Angonio Cascais.

E-mail: info@antoniocascais.net


Preliminary article on the angolan elections (german language): click here

Artikel: angolan_Jugendbewegung.doc

Hear the audio version (german language): click here

Audio: Angola-Proteste.mp3



Angolan Impressions: The Luanda Independence Square (Praça da Independência), three days before the election

LUANDA, ANGOLA, August, 31st

Article on angolan elections, August, 31st, 2012

Reports on angolan elections by Antonio Cascais (english language)

listen Here



Angolan Impressions:

Diffusion of the documentary "Les Fachos",
a 56'22" length film on extremist, right wing movements in France, Hungrary, England & GERMANY. Antonio Cascais participates in this production by Yemaya, Paris for french tv M6.

Antonio Cascais meets African, especially Angolan immigrants in Eberswalde, eastern Germany and speaks about the situation of the relatives of Amadeu Antonio in Luanda, Angola.

Photographs taken in the African Association: Palanca, e.V., Eberswalde, Friday, Dec., 9th, 2011

Amadeu Antonio Kiowa was a contract worker from Angola who lived in Eberswalde in the state of Brandenburg. In the night of November 25th, 1990, a group of about 50 neo-Nazi youths carrying baseball bats went through the city on a "hunt" for blacks. They found and assaulted three black men at a bar: two Mozambicans were severely injured but escaped, while the 28-year old Amadeu Antonio Kiowa fell into a coma from which he did not recover. He died two weeks later.

Amadeu Antonio was one of the first fatalities of racist violence following German reunification. Five of the young culprits were convicted by the court in Frankfurt/Oder and received sentences ranging from probation to at most four years in prison. lt was never established who dealt the fatal blow. Amadeu Antonio Jr. never got to know his father: he came into the world a few weeks after Amadeu Antonio Kiowa's death. Today he lives with his mother and his three siblings in the state of Brandenburg. Helena Afonso, the mother of Amadeu Antonio, lives in the poor Rocha Pinto quarter in Luanda Angola. He has also five brothers and and two sisters, who are still waiting for information and compensation for the damages caused by the murder.

Some scenes on the life of Amadeu Antonio’s family in the Rocha Pinto quarter, Luanda, filmed Saturday, Sept., 3rd, 2011, Portuguese language - HERE

Written summary of the the filmed scenes — PDF German language -HERE

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Article by António Cascais on anti-government protests in Angola

manuscript in german language: "Heute Gadaffi - morgen JES" - PDF

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Article by António Cascais on angolan music

manuscript in portugues language: música angolana- PDF

Audio ( portuguese language )

Article by António Cascais on angolan culture

manuscript in portugues language: cultura angolana- PDF

Audio ( portuguese language )

Antonio Cascais in Angola

September 3, 2011: Journalists attacked while covering protest in Angola
Security forces attacked several journalists during the protest in Luanda's Independence Square.

Follow this link ( Engl. language )

https://www.cpj.org/2011/09/journalists-attacked-while-covering-protest-in-ang.php    

ArchivePDF

or follow this link ( Portuguese language )

http://www.voanews.com/portuguese/news/Luanda_09_04_2011_voanews-129222758.html    

 ArchivePDF

September 9, 2011

Interview for Radio Despertar, Luanda

AudioFile (audio - portuguese language (Ribeiro....mp3))

Article on the protests against the angolan regime

german language (Antonio_Cascais _Afrika_Sued.doc)

Archive MS-Word

TV show "Samstagabend"; topic: Portugal

Antonio participates as an expert in the TV show "Sanstag Abend", produced by German Public tv station SWR http://www.swr.de/

Broadcast: Saturday, March, 19th 8.15 pm until 9.45 pm

Antonio works in Maputo, capital of Mozambique

Topic of his work as a journalism teacher: economic journalism, ethical challenges for journalists covering economical affairs.

Some impressions:

Antonio Cascais with some paticipants of the course "making finance for africa", Maputo, Mozambique, for instance with mozambican TV journalists Selma Marivate and José Macamo

TV show “Planet Wissen”; topic: Portugal

Antonio participates as an expert in the TV show Planet Wissen, produced by German Public tv stations WDR, SWR und BR-alpha

Link: http://www.planet-wissen.de/


Watch the show here (german language ): Part1   Part2   Part3

Here the transcription of the Interview Antonio Cascais gave on the impact of the EU on Portugal: PDF in german language

Mozambique

Antonio’s trip to Quelimane, capital of the mozambican Zambézia Province.

Topics of this prospective trip: Cooperation with sisters Idalina and Justina, editors of catholic “Nova Radio Paz”; Environmental situation in Zambésia Province; Social Security, etc.

Some impressions:

“Mwana machwabu kunkalla buruto!” – (“Among the children of the chwabu people there is no stupidity!”) - This is the key sentence in the local chwabu language, I learned before travelling to Quelimane. Before the trip I consulted my eldest Mozambican friend Daniel Machava. As he was born in Maputo his mother tongue – beside the Portuguese - is ronga and not chwabu. And “as a ronga” - he told me – “I’m a foreigner in Zambésia, like you”. But the people in Zambesia are extremely proud, but also open-minded and hospitable, especially if they hear sentences like this one, formulated in their chwabu mother tongue: “Mwana machwabu kunkalla buruto!” - “If you tell this sentence to a waiter or someone else in the streets of Quelimane you probably will win a new friend and be served like a king” – that was the promise of my friend Daniel Machava, who lives in Europe for more than 3 decades, but visited once Quelimane when he was a young man. Thank you, Daniel, for teaching me this very nice sentence. By the way: It worked!
Quelimane is a seaport in Mozambique. It is the administrative capital of the Zambesia Province and the province's largest city, and stands 25 km from the mouth of the Rio dos Bons Sinais Vasco da Gama, on his way to India, reached it and saw "good signs" that he was on the right path. The town was the end point of David Livingstone's famous west-to-east crossing of south-central Africa in 1856. Portuguese is the official language of Mozambique, and many residents of the areas surrounding Quelimane speak Portuguese. The most common local language is Chwabo, apart from Longwé. Quelimane, along with much of Zambezia Province, is extremely prone to floods during Mozambique's rainy season. The most recent bout of severe flooding took place in January 2007.

Cape Verde:

Antonio Cascais participates in the Shooting for a documentary on Cape Verde. Some impressions

Portugal:

Antonio Cascais reports on the pope’s visit to Portugal (Lisbon, Fátima & Oporto) in cooperation with ARD Studio Vatikan.

Angola:

Antonio Cascais works together with ZDF anchorwoman Marietta Slomka – Germany’s second public tv channel – and SPIEGEL TV (Hamburg) on a 45 minutes length documentary on economical and social developments in Africa

Antonio reports on the still widening gap between rich and poor in Angola…

Still in Angola, Antonio reports on the extremely precarious conditions in Angolan pediatric hospitals.

Antonio’s reports are regularly being (re)broadcasted in European and African tv and radio stations. Listen to a radio report by Antonio Cascais broadcasted by radio Ecclesia, Luanda (Portuguese language)

AudioFile

AudioFile

Cape Verde:

Antonio Cascais works together with Filmquadrat.dok (Munich) and Christian Schidlowski (Berlin) on a documentary film about Cape Verde

See some pictures of the preparation and prospecting tour:

Angola:

Antonio Cascais works together with ARD – Germany’s first public tv channel – on a 45 minutes length documentary on the impact of the chinese presence in Africa.

Please click the image to watch a short excerpt.

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Cabinda

Cabinda, an exclave and province of Angola (a status that has been disputed by many political organizations which consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal).

Antonio’s trip to Cabinda takes place after the attack perpetrated by the independentist group Flec against the Togo football team which participated in the african Football Cup of Nations, CAN - Angola 2010. The attack left three dead, several injured and has led to the withdrawal of the Togo team from the tournement.

Background information article on Cabinda by Antonio Cascais for Deutsche Welle Radio (german language):   PDF german language


Latest “Human Rights Watch” report on Cabinda:   

PDF english language or read article here

PDF portugues language or read article here


Interview by Antonio Cascais with Human Rigths Watch activist Lisa Rimli for DW-Radio (portuguese Language); (24.02.2010)

AudioFile

Report on the 4 new angolan football stadia, including the Chiazi-Stadium in Cabinda, build by the chinese for the african Cup of Nations 2010
(portuguese language); (26.02.2010)

AudioFile

Cabinda - with a population of nearly 150 000 - is an exclave and province of Angola, a status that has been disputed by many political organizations in the territory. The capital city is also called Cabinda. The province is divided into four municipalities - Belize, Buco Zau, Cabinda and Congo.
Cabinda is separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow strip of territory belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which bounds the province on the south and the east. Cabinda is bounded on the north by the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.


Adjacent to the coast are some of the largest offshore oil fields in the world. Petroleum exploration began in 1954 by the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, when the territory was under Portuguese rule. It is estimated that 60 % of angola’s oil reserves are in deep fields off shore from Cabinda. The territory is able to produce ca. 700,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Cabinda Oil is associated with Sonangol, Agip Angola Lda (41%), Chevron (39.2%), Total (10%) and Eni (9.8%).

In 1885, the Treaty of Simulambuco established in Cabinda a Protectorate of Portugal and a number of Cabindan independence movements consider the occupation of the territory by Angola illegal. While the Angolan Civil War largely ended in 2002, an armed struggle persists in the exclave of Cabinda, where some of the factions have proclaimed an independent Republic of Cabinda.

São Tomé e Príncipe:

Antonio Cascais visits the Portuguese-speaking island nation in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western equatorial coast of Africa


From the late 1400s Portugal began settling convicts on Sao Tome and establishing sugar plantations with the help of slaves from the mainland. The island was also important in the transshipment of slaves. In the XIX century coffee and cocoa crops were introduced.

Sao Tome and Principe is trying to shake off its dependence on the cocoa crop. Falls in production and prices left the island state heavily reliant on foreign aid. The government has been encouraging economic diversification and is set to exploit the billions of barrels of oil which are thought to lie off the country's coast.

more information on this topic coming soon

Mozambique elections: Antonio Cascais travels to Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Sofala, Zambésia and Maputo provinces:

Antonio Cascais covers presidential elections as well as national and regional parliamentary elections in Mozambique

Frelimo party, in power since it led the country to independence from Portugal in 1975, oficially wins 191 parliamentary seats out of 250 - enough to change the constitution at will. The main opposition parties claim election fraud.

more information on this topic

Nampula, Mozambik: Antonio Cascais is working on several reports about the people's access to micro credits.


more information on this topic coming soon

Luanda, Angola: António Cascais organizes a course on cultural journalism for 14 Journalists from five lusophone african countries.

The program includes meetings with outstanding angolan poets, artists and musicians, as well as visits of museums and galleries. Thanks to DW-Akademie and Goethe-Institut, Luanda...

	Fridolim-Feature "audio-file"
	Gabriel-Feature "audio-file"

António Cascais is preparing several trips to Angola and Mozambik

António Cascais reports on Angola, at the DASP congress (german society for the african portuguese speaking countries), Universität zu Köln, Cologne University, Germany

Read the script: PDF german language




António gives a lecture on Angola at the "Portuguese Club International", Cologne, Germany

Read the script:   PDF portuguese language

Antonio is visiting Mozambik (Moçambique) Nampula
Province & Maputo

Antonio is breathing the exceptional air of Quito, one of the highest capital cities of the world (2850 m). By the way he is researching on the media system of this latin american country.

Please listen to this radio feature in portuguese language:

Ecuador - is the freedom of press in danger?

Ecuador – está em risco a liberdade de imprensa?

(audio (mp3) - portuguese language)    PDF portuguese Language