Radio Famastar

Radio Famastar is an online station from Luanda, one of the liveliest of Angola's many web radios, and it wears the whole lusophone-African dance floor on its sleeve: kizomba and zouk, samba, house, soukous, salsa and a gospel hour - a 24/7 mix, as its own listing puts it, with music, news and entertainment in the blend.

The format is a tour of the Atlantic in sound: Angolan kizomba beside Cape Verdean zouk, Brazilian samba beside Congolese soukous, with house and salsa filling the late hours. The gospel hour gives the mix a Sunday-morning calm. It is party radio with a map, and the map is the Portuguese-speaking world plus its neighbours.

Famastar streams around the clock through the directories - there is no FM frequency, the stream is the station - and keeps its home base on Facebook, where the presenter posts updates. For a kizomba fan far from Luanda, it is the next best thing to a night out in the city.