Interview coming 3 September 2026
“It Was Our Mistake”: Manuel Vicente on Angola, China, and the Limits of the Debt-Trap Story
Manuel Vicente served as Vice President of Angola from 2012 to 2017. Before entering government, he spent more than a decade leading Sonangol, the state oil company that underwrote much of Angola’s post-war borrowing.
In this interview, he reflects on Angola’s relationship with China, resource-backed finance and the question of negotiating agency.