FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Angola’s dark history: How fearful rulers have governed in the shadows • FRANCE 24 English” – below is their description.
In Perspective, FRANCE 24 looks at the past and present of one pocket of Southern Africa: the country of Angola. Paula Cristina Roque, who spent much of her Covid-19 lockdown penning a new book on Angola called “Governing In The Shadows”, joins us from Lisbon to talk about her work.
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In This Story: Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa. It is the second largest lusophone (Portuguese-speaking country) in both total area and population (behind Brazil), and it is the seventh-largest country in Africa, bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west.
Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The capital and largest city of Angola is Luanda.
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