This article considers the politics of memory and emorialization in Angola today in the light of existing scholarship on this theme elsewhere in southern Africa. I examine young anti-government activists? preoccupation with history, and argue that this can be understood only with reference to the MPLA government?s own renewed concern with history since the end of ...

his article explores political mobilization, legitimacy, and identity in the Angolan Central Highlands from the anti-colonial struggle of the 1960s until the end of the civil war in 2002. It examines how the rival movements, MPLA and UNITA, competed for support, and considers the nature of the relationships between political-military elites and the Angolan people. ...

International rivalry in the Cold War has dominated scholarship on the post-independence war in Angola, but little research has been done on how foreign support for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) had an impact on political mobilisation inside Angola. This article draws upo...

Lara Pawson's In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre is the first book in English to deal with the events surrounding the 27 May 1977 in Angola, when a former government minister, Nito Alves, led a protest, or a revolt, against the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) government. Unknown numbers of people were killed in subsequent re...

The fractious history of Mozambique's anti-colonial movement remains politically charged, just as in other post-colonial states where opposition movements have challenged the ruling party's exclusive claim to the legacy of national liberation. This article examines the debates over the legacy of the former Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (Frelimo) vice-president...