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Folk-tales of Angola
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The Return
Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels. Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by...
Njinga de Ndongo y Matamba
Njinga de Ndongo y Matamba es la historia real de una niña que estuvo a punto de morir al nacer, pero que desafió todos los pronósticos y se convirtió en reina de dos reinos. Venerada por su sabiduría, valor y fuerza, Njinga se convirtió en una de las figuras políticas más dominantes de Angola en el siglo XVII. Este libro infantil, profusamente ilustrado, relata los desafíos a los que se enfrentó desde el día en que nació. Njinga tuvo que superar los celos de su hermano, la pérdida de su padre y la invasión de los portugueses en una época de grandes conflictos en África. Esta historia de esperanza y coraje demuestra que todas las jóvenes son capaces de hacer grandes cosas.
Angola Under the Portuguese
The book is the first comprehensive study of race relations in Angola. It covers the entire five-century-long relationship between the peoples of Angola and Portugal. Portuguese imperial thinkers asserted that they were unique among European colonizers in their ability to establish and maintain egalitarian and non-discriminatory relationships with tropical peoples. This concept was elevated to a philosophical plateau and given the name Lusotropicalism. Propagated with fervor by Portuguese colonial thinkers, Lusotropical doctrines were widely accepted as being valid by twentieth-century diplomats and political thinkers in both Europe and the United States, many of whom believed that Portugues...
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