On Angola

My writing on Angola has been limited to a dozen or so pieces of journalism in English, Italian and Portuguese, with one or two book reviews, spread more or less over the decade of the 1990s.

Decoration

Writings

♦ [Review of] Lara Pawson, In the name of the people: Angola's forgotten massacre (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014). South African Historical Journal vol.66, no.4, 2014, pages 726-728. Click here to download PDF file, 98 kb. For a Portuguese version. see África 21 (May 2015), pages 90-91 (click here, 131 kb.)

♦ Angola quicksand. Southern Africa Report, May 1998, pages 15-18. Click here to download PDF file, 1.5 Mb.

♦ History nuanced versus history tribal. Africa South&East, February 1994, page 23. Not yet available.
Review of David Birmingham's Frontline nationalism in Angola and Mozambique (1992) and Willem van der Waals' Portugal's war in Angola, 1961-1974 (1993)

♦ Published anonymously. Angola: a Guernica for South Africa. Africa South&East, November 1993, page 13

♦ With Eugene Vari. Angola: non accetto sconfitte. Nigrizia, November 1992, pages 6-9. In Italian. Not yet available.

♦ As Angola nears free elections, pope's visit seen as victory. National Catholic Reporter, 15 May 1992, page 10. Click here to download or view a PDF file. [120 Kb.]

♦ Angola: the peace process and the beginning of structural adjustment. Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly, November 1990, pages 8-9. Not yet available.

♦ The Gulf crisis and Angola. Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly, September 1990, page 36. Not yet available.

♦ Angola: la guerra della fame. Nigrizia, June 1990, page 17. In Italian. Click here to download PDF file, 175 Kb.

♦ Cuban internationalism in Africa: solidarity with liberation struggles. Africa South, March-April 1990, page 49. Not yet available.
Review of David Deutschmann (ed.), Angola and Namibia: changing the history of Africa (Melbourne: Ocean Press, 1989).

♦ Published anonymously. Structural adjustment hits Luanda: bring your own beers. Africa South, January-February 1990, pages 18-19. Click here to download PDF file, 175 Kb.

♦ Angola: defence expenditure since 1980 (millions of kwanzas). Unpublished research paper, Harare, 1990. 2 pages. Click here to download PDF file, 14 Kb.

♦ Published anonymously. The Angolan economy and the World Bank. Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly, December 1989-January 1990, pages 38-40. Click here to download PDF file, 14 Kb.

♦ Published anonymously. Angola, economia doente. Grandes males, grandes remédios. África [Lisbon] no.135, 13-19 December 1989, pages 1, 19. In Portuguese. Not yet available.

♦ With Steve Askin. Da Luanda a Jamba. Nigrizia, September 1989, pages 10-12. In Italian. Not yet available.

♦ With Steve Askin. Correction on Fauvet. The Guardian [New York], 16 August 1989, page 22. Not yet available.
Letter to the editor adding some historical details to a report by Paul Fauvet on the Gbadolite summit of 22 June 1989, an intervention by President Mobutu of the then Zaïre in the Angola peace process.