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Angola From Afrostalinism To Petrodiamond Capitalism Tony Hodges

Name: Angola From Afrostalinism To Petrodiamond Capitalism Tony Hodges
SKU: BELL-44632484
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Publisher: Indiana University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 11.01 MB

Pages: 201

Author: Tony Hodges

ISBN: 9780852558515, 0852558511

Language: English

Year: 2001

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Angola From Afrostalinism To Petrodiamond Capitalism Tony Hodges by Tony Hodges 9780852558515, 0852558511 instant download after payment.

Tony Hodges gives a masterful analysis of the years following Angolan independence which is neatly summed up the title 'Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism'. It covers the civil war which he states 'for all its intractability .. has neither a real social basis, even in terms of ethnicity, nor substantive ideological motives' (18); it focuses in detail on how the oil and diamond wealth has been used to enrich a small elite while providing just adequate support to an urban following. He considers why another Angola was less successful than former Portuguese colony Mozambique in making the transition from war to peace and the development of a pluralist democracy and concludes that the Bermuda Triangle of oil has much to do with this failure. Ten years on things have improved. The FCO site now states 'Decades of central planning, mismanagement, corruption and the war have long distorted the economy. In 2000, Angola began tentative economic reforms. It has since made significant progress in achieving macro-economic stability' but is still a difficult place to work due to stifling bureaucracy. The question remains as to how this economic stability has benefited Angolan people at large.
Hodges book is required reading for those with a genuine interest in the Angola economy; the casual reader will also find it interesting but will need to skate over the many detailed graphs and pie charts.