Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War

by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War

by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

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Overview

Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa's longest and deadliest civil wars.

The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent.

Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. How has the regime, led by President José Eduardo dos Santos since 1979, dealt with these challenges, and can it deliver on popular expectations? Soňares de Oliveira's book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780190251390
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/05/2015
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ricardo Soňares de Oliveira is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford, Fellow of St. Peter´s College, Oxford, and Fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Maps

Introduction. "Angola Starts Now"
Chapter 1. In the Shadow of War: Oil and the Making of the Parallel System
Chapter 2. The Spectacle of Reconstruction
Chapter 3. The Consolidation of the MPLA Party-State
Chapter 4. Oligarchic Capitalism, Angola-Style
Chapter 5. Angola Rising: International Strategies in the Peace Era
Conclusion. Post-Postwar Angola

Bibliography
Index
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