In this Humanities Futures “Academic Futurology” event, cultural anthropologist Catarina Gomes describes her planning for a humanities lab in Angola in relation to humanitarian aid structures. How do active learning and teaching processes, knowledge production and dissemination, critical thinking, creativity and citizenship, as well as an overall assessment of Angolan higher education system, figure in global development? The idea and the role of the university and the humanities will be especially addressed in this context.