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- History, Knowledge & Memory
How to remember Jonas Savimbi
Sixteen years after the end of the Angolan civil war, the Angolan state considers how to properly remember and memorialize…
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30 years since Cuito Cuanavale, the battle that redefined Southern Africa
Thirty years ago in southern Angola, four military forces were mobilising for the largest conventional battle in Africa since the…
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How the Congo crisis has reshaped international relations
In July 1960, within a week of achieving independence from Belgium, the Congo (later renamed Zaire and now known as…
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Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961)
By Sean Jacobs Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent Congo for only seven months between 1960 and…
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