A fascinating story of exploration and environmental devastation chronicles the fate of the sable antelope in Angola throughout the twentieth century.

On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy...

This is not a book of fiction. It is an actual account of the events and the nature of the tragedy that befell so many innocent victims on the fateful morning of March 15, 1961, in Angola, Africa, and...

Angola’s civil war was the longest and bloodiest in Africa. Once the battleground for a proxy war between the Cold War superpowers, the country was supposed to become a model for a smooth transition from armed conflict to democracy....

After more than twenty years of devastating civil war, Angola is slowly moving toward peace and reconciliation. In this accessible introduction to one of the most resource-rich countries in Africa, Inge Tvedten traces Angola’s turbulent past, with a particular...

Taking in three civil wars, five countries, and a couple of rain forests, this is a guide to the history of Africa. Tracing the route of the colonial railway which spans the African continent through Angola, Zaire, Zambia and...

When a leased Boeing 727 mysteriously vanishes after two passengers murder the pilot, Army intelligence officer Major Carlos Guillermo Castillo, a veteran of the Special Forces, is called in by the president of the United States to uncover the...

A young Australian working girl from London struggles to adapt to diplomatic life among the royal courtiers of Swaziland, in post-independence Zimbabwe and in Angola amid the gunfire of the civil war. She accompanies her husband, the striding KJ,...

Angola has been embroiled in war almost continuously since its independence in 1975. Yet despite countless casualties, including some two million displaced people, Western media have paid scant attention to this devastataling conflict — one of apartheid South Africa’s...

Exiled from the safety of the capital Shunned by her colleagues at the mine How could it get any worse? It’s 1998 and Geologist Sam Harris is so desperate for money, she takes a job in a tinpot mining...