Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Luanda in 2002 and 2019, this chapter explores the transformations in the practice of capoeira in Angola from its earliest “return” to the country at the end of the civil war to the present. As argued elsewhere (Wesolowski, K. (2020). Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 25(3), 453–72), my first trip to Angola with a group of Brazilian capoeiristas involved a twinned imagining: the Brazilian capoeiristas imagining Angola as the ancestral home of their practice, and the young Angolan capoeiristas imagining Brazil as the caretaker of one of the cultural practices that was lost during the civil war. By 2019, capoeira practice had exploded in Angola with close to 100 groups in Luanda. The chapter argues that capoeira has now become a vehicle for some returnee Angolans (who spent most of the war years in Europe) to reclaim their “Africanness” and re-help build their nation through what they refer to as angolanidade.