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Country Guides & Maps

2006 Country Profile and Guide to Angola – National Travel Guidebook and Handbook – USAID Reports, Water Use, Law, Energy, AGOA   (amazon.com) - USA
Electronic Book - Two CD-ROM Set by U.S. Government (

an amazing collection of the finest federal documents and resources about Angola, providing encyclopedic coverage of all aspects of the country.

Angola Travel Map  (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
Cartographia Series World Travel Maps
Format Folded Map, Scale 1:2 000 000
Full colour travel maps with place name index are produced by one of the worlds longest established cartographers.

Angola  (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK

Main Road Map 955: Central and Southern Africa / Madagascar  (Maps Worldwide)
Published by Michelin Series Main Road Maps
Folded Map, Scale 1:4 000 000
A general good quality motoring and tourist map with good detail.


History & Politics

Blood on the Tracks : A Rail Journey from Angola to Mozambique   (amazon.com) - USA
by Miles Bredin, Harriet Logan (Photographer)

Angola and Mozambique : Postcolonial Wars in Southern Africa (Conflict and Crisis in the Post-Cold War World)
  (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK by James Ciment

Angola : Struggle for Peace and Reconstruction (Nations of the Modern World. Africa)   (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Inge Tvedten, Stephen Wright, Larry W. Bowman (Editor)
After more than 20 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, Norwegian researcher Inge Tvedten traces Angola's turbulent past, with a particular focus on the impact that political and economic upheaval has had on the Angolan people

Country Review, Angola 1999/2000   (amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
concise, up-to-date source for political and economic information

The Death of Dignity : Angola's Civil War   (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Victoria Brittain

Angola: Promises and Lies   (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Karl Maier
Karl Maier describes the long-running Angolan conflict as ‘the worst war in the world’.

Land Mines in Angola   (amazon.com) - USA
by Human Rights Watch Staff

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People & Culture

Angola (Cultures of the World, 18)   (amazon.com) - USA
by Sean Sheehan

Angola (Enchantment of the World)   (amazon.com) - USA
by Jason Laure
Reading level: Ages 9-12 - Describes the geography, history, people, and culture of Angola.

A Family of the Musseque : Survival and Development in Postwar Angola     (amazon.com) - USA    (amazon.co.uk) - UK
by Alexia Gamito, Joao Francisco da Silva, Pascoal Estevao, Vicente Albino Paulo, Victor Vunge, Bob van der Winden (Editor)
This book shows the way people are helping themselves through the crisis in Angola. It does not refer much to politics, nor does it speculate about war and peace; it begins by describing a day in the life of the Ricardo family living in a musseque, one of the shantytowns around Luanda.


Other Books & Novels

Spared Angola : Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood   (amazon.com) - USA
by Virgil Suarez
Spared Angola: Memories from a Cuban-American Childhood is a powerful and original first collection of autobiographical stories, essays and poems. The successful novelist here lays bare the making of his conscience as a writer and human being, detailing the psychological pressure of male expectations, family gender battles, emigration and adjusting to a new culture.


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