ugflyer,
Understand where your coming from but ask anyone whose spent time in Luanda will tell you roughly the same.
Luanda was built by the Portuguese with the infrastructure for about 400 thousand. With thirty odd years of civil war, it has only ever been the safe place in the country. So over time everyone moved there as the safe haven. There is around 4 million now living in Luanda.
With thirty odd years of civil war very very little was ever spent on infrastructure there. There is no real city power or water, roads it the city are barely drivable. With the influx of oil and mining money cars are now everywhere but no where to drive them. Depending where you lived it could easily take an hour and a half to drive 7 km!
There is nice parts of Luanda, the haves where money is no object. Who spend there time down on the water front. The expat contract workers who live in the compounds.....
There is very little livable accommodation there that's not expensive.
and rest of the population live in one big never ending squatter camp.
Wish I could post photo's.
There is a huge future for Angola but lets all hope that the divide between have and have nots doesn't start another wee fight.