Apartheid’s Last Stand
Jeremy Harding, 17 March 2016
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War
by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira.
Hurst, 291 pp., £25, March 2015,978 1 84904 284 0 Show More
by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira.
Hurst, 291 pp., £25, March 2015,
A Short History of Modern Angola
by David Birmingham.
Hurst, 256 pp., £17.99, December 2015,978 1 84904 519 3 Show More
by David Birmingham.
Hurst, 256 pp., £17.99, December 2015,
Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa
by Piero Gleijeses.
North Carolina, 655 pp., £27.95, February 2016,978 1 4696 0968 3 Show More
by Piero Gleijeses.
North Carolina, 655 pp., £27.95, February 2016,
A General Theory of Oblivion
by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn.
Harvill, 245 pp., £14.99, June 2015,978 1 84655 847 4 Show More
by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn.
Harvill, 245 pp., £14.99, June 2015,
In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre
by Lara Pawson.
I.B. Tauris, 271 pp., £20, April 2014,978 1 78076 905 9 Show More
by Lara Pawson.
I.B. Tauris, 271 pp., £20, April 2014,
Cuito Cuanavale: Frontline Accounts by Soviet Soldiers
by G. Shubin, I. Zhdarkin et al, translated by Tamara Reilly.
Jacana, 222 pp., £12.95, May 2014,978 1 4314 0963 1 Show More
by G. Shubin, I. Zhdarkin et al, translated by Tamara Reilly.
Jacana, 222 pp., £12.95, May 2014,
“... at first to distinguish from exhaustion: the MPLA keeled over as one blow followed another, then rose slowly to its feet, helped up by the Cubans and applauded by the Soviet Union. The dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire, which was arming and harbouring Unita and the FNLA, was a more serious threat than Alves. A few weeks before the coup, Neto ... ”
