Research Catalog

Title

Why Angola matters : report of a conference held at Pembroke College, Cambridge, March 21-22, 1994 / edited by Keith Hart and Joanna Lewis.

Publication

Cambridge [England] : African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge, in association with J. Currey, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Hart, Keith.
• Lewis, Joanna.
• University of Cambridge. African Studies Centre.

Description

191 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Summary

This volume examines the history of Angola since independence in 1975, and in particular the fact that the country has known only one year of peace in that time. The contributions come from a conference held in Cambridge to discuss the issues involved.

Subject

• 1975-2002
• Politics and political science
• Angola > History > Civil War, 1975-2002 > Congresses
• Angola
• Angola > Politics and government
• Cambridge <1994>

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187).

Contents

• International intervention in the pursuit of peace / Achol Deng (3 p.). -- African diplomacy and the OAU / Jean-Emmanuel Pondi (5 p.). -- Angola's fate in the US world order / George Wright (6 p.). -- The biggest tragedy of modern times / George Chikoti (3 p.). -- Eliminating fear and hatred / Isaias Samakuva (4 p.). -- Finding a space for civil society / Fernando Pacheco (4 p.). -- A regional motor for development / Richard Thomas (3 p.). -- Violence pays: a lesson from the west / Victoria Brittain (4 p.). -- The road to economic recovery / Tony Hodges (4 p.).
• No to UNITA's armed blackmail / Peter Brayshaw (2 p.). -- The UN's involvement in Southern Africa / José Campino (5 p.). -- Urban elites and rural masses / David Birmingham (5 p.). -- Band-aid on a deep wound / Catrin Schulte-Hillen (3 p.). -- No development without mines eradication / Rae McGrath (4 p.). -- Nurturing grass roots development / Sue Fleming (4 p.). -- Normal lives? / Teresa Santana (2 p.). -- Blank pages for western writers / Keith Somerville (4 p.). -- Under-reporting and misreporting Africa / Ahmed Rajab (3 p.). -- Bringing Angola into British homes / Alex Holmes (3 p.). -- Finding a positive in the negative / Zed Nelson (3 p.). -- NGOs and UNITA / Chris Eldridge (2 p.). -- The siege of Cuito / Alex Vines (4 p.). -- Beyond Lusaka / Patrick Smith (8 p.). -- Angola: the political economy of integration and division / Keith Hart (5 p.). -- Angola through a cracked glass dimly / Reginald Green (10 p.).

ISBN

• 0852553943
• 9780852553947

LCCN

96134789

OCLC

• ocm33102883
• 33102883
• SCSB-2110170

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library