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157866
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HORTLY AFTER THE GOVERNMENT’S2002 victory against UNITA rebels in the country’s long civil war, Angola became the fastest growing economy in the world. Oil production shot up from one million to just under two million barrels a day between 2002 and 2008, with the price of oil jumping from around $20 to $147 in the same period. GDP increased tenfold between 2002 and 2013, making Angola sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy at $121 billion. Armed with unprecedented oil revenues that paid for infrastructure expenditure and the hiring of hundreds of thousands of expatriates, a strategic alliance with China, and hegemonic control of post-war Angola, the ruling MPLA proceeded to enact a self-styled national reconstruction agenda and assertive foreign policy.
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ID:
115826
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2012.
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This article explores political mobilization, legitimacy, and identity in the Angolan Central Highlands from the anti-colonial struggle of the 1960s until the end of the civil war in 2002. It examines how the rival movements, MPLA and UNITA, competed for support, and considers the nature of the relationships between political-military elites and the Angolan people. Whereas much scholarship on civil war has focused on the emergence of rebellions against the state, I argue that such an approach to the Angolan war is inappropriate since both protagonists were founded as anti-colonial movements and both organizations developed characteristics of states to different degrees. Central to each party's narrative was an ideology of the state as a complex of ideas and practices that linked together responsibilities towards the population, prerogatives of violence, and the identity of the nation. People expressed support for either or both movements in terms of common interest and identity, which in turn were shaped by the political education of the movement in control at the time.
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ID:
058359
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ID:
144382
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Angola’s rulers are faced with the rise of a generation that does not accept the political logic of the war, whereby dissent equaled treason.
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