Verdict: carrot
Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola Since the Civil War is an expertly researched and simply told historical and political overview of one of sub-Saharan Africa’s least understood countries.
Author Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, an associate professor in comparative politics at the University of Oxford, combines academic research with a storyteller’s powers of observation after years of fieldwork and personal interviews. His detailed explanations flow easily and are laced with nuanced comments. They give the reader a rare and deep understanding of this complex nation, its violent past and its push for modernity.
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- Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War by Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
EAN: 9781431422296
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