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Magnificent and Beggar Land

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
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Author : Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190251413

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Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil wars. The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent. Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. How has the regime, led by President Jos? Eduardo dos Santos since 1979, dealt with these challenges, and can it deliver on popular expectations? Soares de Oliveira's book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.

Njinga of Angola

Linda M. Heywood
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Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674237445

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Njinga of Angola by Linda M. Heywood Pdf

One of history’s most multifaceted rulers but little known in the West, Queen Njinga rivaled Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great in political cunning and military prowess. Today, she is revered in Angola as a heroine and honored in folk religions. Her complex legacy forms a crucial part of the collective memory of the Afro-Atlantic world.

Biodiversity of Angola

Brian J. Huntley,Vladimir Russo,Fernanda Lages,Nuno Ferrand
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Author : Brian J. Huntley,Vladimir Russo,Fernanda Lages,Nuno Ferrand
Publisher : Springer
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030030834

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Biodiversity of Angola by Brian J. Huntley,Vladimir Russo,Fernanda Lages,Nuno Ferrand Pdf

This open access multi-authored book presents a 'state of the science' synthesis of knowledge on the biodiversity of Angola, based on sources in peer-reviewed journals, in books and where appropriate, unpublished official reports. The book identifies Angola as one of the most biologically diverse countries in Africa, but notes that its fauna, flora, habitats and the processes that drive the dynamics of its ecosystems are still very poorly researched and documented. This 'state of the science' synthesis is for the use of all students of Angola's biodiversity, and for those responsible for the planning, development and sustainable management of the country's living resources. The volume brings together the results of expeditions and research undertaken in Angola since the late eighteenth century, with emphasis on work conducted in the four decades since Angola's independence in 1975. The individual chapters have been written by leaders in their fields, and reviewed by peers familiar with the region.

From Water to Wine

Jess Auerbach
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Author : Jess Auerbach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781487524333

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Part monograph, part methods handbook, and including poetry, photos and other media, this highly original work explores the emergent middle class in Angola through the lens of the senses.

Governing in the Shadows

Paula Cristina Roque
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Author : Paula Cristina Roque
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197644096

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Governing in the Shadows by Paula Cristina Roque Pdf

This book traces three decades of securitization in Angola. As a governing strategy during war and peacetime, it muted the aspirations of those on opposing sides, distorted the state, emboldened elites and redefined the identity of Angolans. Through this lens, Paula Cristina Roque provides an original account of Angola's post-conflict state-building. Securitization protected the interests of President dos Santos, the ruling MPLA party and the elites supporting the regime. Angola's array of security forces and infrastructure provided an alternative to a fully functioning executive, at national, provincial and local levels. The intrusive way in which any form of dissent or activism was crushed allowed the presidency to control the direction and narrative of the post-war years. But the facade of democracy, development and stability hid a very different reality for the majority of Angolans, who remained poor, disenfranchised and marginalized. Roque explores the inner workings of the intelligence services, army and presidential guard, explaining the trajectory of a survivalist and fearful regime presiding over scarcities and injustices. She shows that the survival of national security and governing elites was the highest priority. The 'shadows' held far more power than institutions, and weakened them-widening the gap between government and governed.

A Short History of Modern Angola

David Birmingham
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Author : David Birmingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190271305

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David Birmingham begins this short history of Angola in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the 19th century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour. The colony was managed by a few marine officers, white political convicts and black Angolans who had adopted Portuguese language and culture. The hub was the harbour city of Luanda which grew to be a dynamic metropolis of several million people. The export of labour was gradually replaced when an agrarian revolution enabled white Portuguese immigrants to drive black Angolan labourers to produce sugar-cane, cotton, maize and above all coffee. During the 20th century this wealth was supplemented by Congo copper, by gem-quality diamonds, and by off-shore oil. The generation of warfare finally ended in 2002 when national reconstruction could begin on Portuguese colonial foundations.

Angola

Karl Maier
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Author : Karl Maier
Publisher : Serif Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000110584947

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Angola by Karl Maier Pdf

Angola's civil war was the longest and bloodiest in Africa. Once the battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers, the country was supposed to become a model for a smooth transition from armed conflict to democracy. The government, previously backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba, and the UNITA rebels, who once enjoyed American and South African support, would exchange bullets for ballots - but it all went wrong ... UNITA's Jonas Savimbi rejected his defeat in the country's first ever free elections and plunged Angola back into war. The international community could only wring its hands, eventually negotiating a fragile new peace agreement. For millions of Angolans, however, the effects of a quarter of a century of violence have proved to be more enduring than the taste of peace.

Angola Janga

Marcelo D'Salete
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Author : Marcelo D'Salete
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Black people
ISBN : 9781683961918

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Angola Janga by Marcelo D'Salete Pdf

An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In stark black ink and chiaroscuro panel compositions, D’Salete brings history to life; the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom. At turns heartbreaking and empowering, Angola Janga sheds light on a long-overlooked moment of resistance against oppression.

Empire in Africa

David Birmingham
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Author : David Birmingham
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804524

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The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans or those experienced by Angola’s neighbors in the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, or the Dutch colonies at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Transvaal. David Birmingham takes the reader through Angola’s troubled past, which included endemic warfare for the first twenty-five years of independence, and examines the fact that in the absence of a viable neocolonial referee such as Britain or France, the warring parties turned to Cold War superpowers for a supply of guns. For a decade Angola replaced Vietnam as a field in which an international war by proxy was conducted. Empire in Africa explains how this African nation went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.

Intonations

Marissa J. Moorman
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Author : Marissa J. Moorman
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821443040

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Intonations tells the story of how Angola’s urban residents in the late colonial period (roughly 1945–74) used music to talk back to their colonial oppressors and, more importantly, to define what it meant to be Angolan and what they hoped to gain from independence. A compilation of Angolan music is included in CD format. Marissa J. Moorman presents a social and cultural history of the relationship between Angolan culture and politics. She argues that it was in and through popular urban music, produced mainly in the musseques (urban shantytowns) of the capital city, Luanda, that Angolans forged the nation and developed expectations about nationalism. Through careful archival work and extensive interviews with musicians and those who attended performances in bars, community centers, and cinemas, Moorman explores the ways in which the urban poor imagined the nation. The spread of radio technology and the establishment of a recording industry in the early 1970s reterritorialized an urban-produced sound and cultural ethos by transporting music throughout the country. When the formerly exiled independent movements returned to Angola in 1975, they found a population receptive to their nationalist message but with different expectations about the promises of independence. In producing and consuming music, Angolans formed a new image of independence and nationalist politics.

Angola

Tony Hodges
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Author : Tony Hodges
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015045673079

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This is a comprehensive account of the profound changes in Angola's political economy.

Angola

Patrick Chabal,Nuno Vidal
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Author : Patrick Chabal,Nuno Vidal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015074055321

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Angola by Patrick Chabal,Nuno Vidal Pdf

It is hoped that the multiparty elections of 2007 will bring about a political system in Angola that will ensure the country's sustained economic and social development. Angola is just emerging from almost three decades of civil war, and its abundant natural resources and booming oil sector could lay the groundwork for long-term economic prosperity and cement the transition towards political stability. But are these hopes realistic? Angola provides a thorough introduction to the history of Angola and analyzes its economic, political, and social evolution since independence. Its contributors offer incisive, original, and contemporary interpretations of one of the most complex countries in Africa.

The Ruling Elite of Singapore

Michael D. Barr
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Author : Michael D. Barr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857735768

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The Ruling Elite of Singapore by Michael D. Barr Pdf

Michael Barr explores the complex and covert networks of power at work in one of the world's most prosperous countries - the city-state of Singapore. He argues that the contemporary networks of power are a deliberate project initiated and managed by Lee Kuan Yew - former prime minister and Singapore's 'founding father' - designed to empower himself and his family. Barr identifies the crucial institutions of power - including the country's sovereign wealth funds, and the government-linked companies - together with five critical features that form the key to understanding the nature of the networks. He provides an assessment of possible shifts of power within the elite in the wake of Lee Kuan Yew's son, Lee Hsien Loong, assuming power, and considers the possibility of a more fundamental democratic shift in Singapore's political system.

Back to Angola

Paul Morris (Psychotherapist)
Back to Angola Book PDF

Author : Paul Morris (Psychotherapist)
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Angola
ISBN : 177022551X

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Back to Angola by Paul Morris (Psychotherapist) Pdf

"In Back to Angola Paul Morris recounts his return to Angola in 2012 after going there in 1987 as a soldier. Morris, who was reluctantly conscripted just before he turned 19, goes back to the country to try and put his memories of war to rest and replace them with images of a peaceful Angola. The narrative switches between his solo cycle trip and his memories of the war." --Internet.

Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola

Cécile Fromont
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Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271094106

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Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola by Cécile Fromont Pdf

Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation. Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.