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Angolans play dead in new social media photos to protest bad road and bad governance in the country

Angolans have been using the hashtag #acabademematar , which translates roughly as "kill me already" to pose for pictures where they are playing dead.

The poses go from glamourous... ... to dangerous:

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Blogger Lunga Izata explains the photos are in protest to a range of issues from bad roads, poor hospital conditions, the high cost of living, pollution, and unemployment to the lack of schools.

"Yesterday, while longing for news that there may be a possibility of easing the country's economic crisis, I was saddened to hear that children have not been to school for five years," she writes.

Here are some more of the protest poses:




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