As a dance, kizomba sees the traditional Angolan moves of semba performed to this genre of music. Singer Eduardo Paim is considered to have popularised the dance in the early 1990s, according to AFP.

On the Rumba Y Timbal studio floor in Central Square, Cambridge, a dancer wrapped her arms around Anthony Olivier, 28, also known as DJ AO, as part of the Conexao kizomba social on Oct. 16, 2021.

It's a warm humid afternoon in Luanda Bay - an urban waterfront on Angola's Atlantic shore. Pairs of dancers in close embrace sway their hips from left to right and shuffle their feet to the ...

Kizomba, which means “party” in Kimbundu, one of Angola’s local languages, is a dance and music genre which developed in the 1980’s in the capital Luanda, swiftly becoming a part of ...