The Roque Santeiro in Angola is the largest open-air market in Africa. It's Brazilian name originates from a featured market in a Brazilian soap opera which was popular on Angolan television fifteen years ago, when the market began. A never-ending expanse of shacks and stalls, the Roque Santeiro attracts approximately one million people each day. Inside the market, vendors sell anything and everything - food, arms, drugs - even people are for sale. However the Rogue Santeiro is much more than a market.

An amalgam of people live in the Rogue Santeiro day and night - a mixed world which welcomes...