AfricaHeadline launches documentary series as part of the LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow

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“How Angola Pulled It Off” inaugurates a continent-wide documentary series born from the LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow, showcasing how African economies are reducing their dependence on raw materials.

LAGOS – AfricaHeadline today announced the launch of a new documentary series on economic diversification across Africa, developed as a flagship component of the LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow, a journalism and economic diplomacy initiative designed to document Africa’s industrial transformation through on-the-ground reporting.

The series will feature country-by-country documentaries examining how African economies are expanding beyond commodities and building new engines of growth. The inaugural episode, “How Angola pulled it off,” chronicles Angola’s transition from an oil-dependent economy toward a more diversified productive base.

The documentary forms part of the 90-day LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow, during which an international editorial team travels across Angola to document investment projects, industrial clusters, logistics corridors, agricultural developments and emerging businesses. The Roadshow combines field reporting, documentary filmmaking, data journalism and investor-focused analysis to provide an evidence-based account of Angola’s economic transformation.

The first episode follows Angola’s non-oil economy, which expanded 6.22% in the first quarter of 2026 while crude oil production recorded its fifth consecutive quarter of contraction. Overall gross domestic product grew 5.32% during the same period.

Filmed across several provinces, the documentary takes viewers to the new coffee-processing plant in Gabela, Cuanza Sul Province, a 10,000-square-metre facility with an annual processing capacity of 1,144 tonnes. It also explores the Lobito Corridor, now connecting the Atlantic coast with the mining regions of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and highlights Angola’s coffee exports, which reached 3,288 tonnes in 2025.

Beyond the statistics, the film examines the reforms underpinning Angola’s economic transition, including the 2018 exchange-rate liberalisation, the gradual removal of fuel subsidies, the PROPRIV privatisation programme, and the economic coordination led by José de Lima Massano under the political leadership of President João Lourenço. Together, these policies illustrate how Angola is seeking to build a more diversified economy, less exposed to fluctuations in global oil prices.

The documentary series also reflects the broader mission of the LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow: to present Africa’s economic transformation through rigorous reporting, direct observation and verified data, while strengthening economic diplomacy, improving international understanding of African markets and highlighting investment opportunities across the continent.

“How Angola pulled it off” will premiere soon on AfricaHeadline as the opening chapter of the LIKE Angola – Economic Roadshow Documentary Series, to be followed by documentaries on other African economies undergoing structural transformation.