Between Wednesday 27 May and the end of the month, African flavours will flood the public transport museum.
The event will feature a market comprising a range of African brands and products, a gastronomy area, musical shows and dance theatre performances, painting exhibitions and fashion displays.
According to organisers the show aims to “revive the senses of Africans who live in Portugal, captivate the Portuguese who love Africa and draw in the numerous foreign tourists who visit Lisbon.”
Among the many sculptors and painters who will be exhibiting at the five-day event are known names such as Malangatana, Gonçalo Mabunda, Dilia Fraguito, Samarte, Malenga and Ntaluma.
It will also feature hairdressing, tribal paintings, massage, tarot and astrology, crafts and jewellery.
While all five of the Portuguese-speaking African countries (commonly referred to as PALOP countries) will be represented at the affair, each day a different country will hold centre court, starting with Angola, on 27 May, followed by Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and São Tomé e Príncipe respectively.
The event runs on week nights between 6pm and midnight and opens on the weekend at 1pm. Tickets cost €5/day (over-sixes).
Meanwhile in nearby Cascais an exhibition dedicated to architecture in the world of showbiz is running until Sunday at the town’s Cidadela Palace, open every day between 2pm and 8pm.
Having opened to the public on Tuesday, the ‘Spectacular views: Painters and Architects on Portuguese Stages’ exhibition is commissioned by the National Museum for Theatre and Dance and presents, for the first time, works from the Museum’s collection as well as lesser-known facets of some of the most important Portuguese artists of the twentieth century.
It showcases plastic design and the making of works connected to the world of entertainment, such as clothing, stage costumes and scenery.