Angola: Promises and Lies by Karl Maier

224 pages, Paperback

215 x 135 x 17mm (L x W x T)

ISBN 9781897959527

Condition: AS NEW: Although technically second-hand, its condition is as new.  It may have been kept in storage or warehoused, never been sold, or never read before.

Genres: Africa / Angola / Nonfiction / History

The book authentically depicts the story of a nation where the government, led by the Peoples Movement for the Liberation of Angola and supported by Communist powers in the Soviet Union and Cuba, signed a peace agreement with the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola in 1992.

This agreement paved the way for the country's first free elections under the supervision of the United Nations. The portrayal highlighted Angola as a nation rich in oil production, natural resources, and as a budding democratic African country. Despite the MPLA emerging victorious in the elections, Jonas Savimbi refused to accept the results, labeling the election as fraudulent. Efforts by the United Nations to reconcile with Savimbi were unsuccessful, leading to prolonged conflict and chaos in the country for the next two decades.