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,
“... There is no mercy for white Westerners who sided with the MPLA. In an encounter in London with Michael Wolfers, an elderly ex-Times journalist who covered Nigeria during the Biafran war and spent years in Luanda with the MPLA as a Marxist aide-de-camp, she sneers at his fatal offer of foie gras, scoffs at the fact that he was privately educated, and goes a ... ”
