Role reversal

摘要

The airport at Luanda, Angola's capital, is called "The Fourth of February" after the start of the nationalist uprising against Portugal, the old imperial power, in 1961. But that is not deterring the thousands of Portuguese flooding in every week. With Portugal's economy sickly, a stream of professionals has been heading south to the former colony. Portugal's foreign ministry says it registered 45,000 Portuguese citizens as resident in Angola in 2007-08. A year later the figure had jumped to 92,000. Not long ago, Angolans were fleeing a civil war, looking for a better life in Portugal.