The Africans by David Lamb

Author:David Lamb [Lamb, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79792-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

* Brazil, a former Portuguese colony, has become a major trading partner with black Africa, seeking in particular to capitalize on its cultural and linguistic ties with Angola and Mozambique. Trade between the Brasilia government and Africa increased fourteenfold from 1970 to 1980. Among Brazil’s major exports are vehicles and food products.

* Except for its oil, in 1980 Angola was not producing much more than six hundred rubber tires a day and some textiles. It was importing half its food, and its agricultural exports had tumbled. Coffee production, for example, fell from 205,000 metric tons in 1974 to 25,000 tons in 1980. The diamond mines were earning less than a quarter of the $80 million they had brought in at independence. Most of the Benguela Railroad had been knocked out of operation by the antigovernment guerrillas. The government had not even published a budget since 1977.

* Like Neto and Roberto, Savimbi was the product of a missionary education. But he was the only one of the three who spent most of his time in the bush with his troops. Neto and Roberto lived outside Angola during the war years.

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