"Oops, looks like they took 'fighting for your rights' a bit too literally 🤷♂️ #AngolanWarofIndependence #RevolutionGoneWrong" - Portuguese Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar
Jan 03, 1961 - A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baixa_de_Cassanje
https://archive.org/details/portugueseafrica
The Decolonization of Portuguese Africa: Metropolitan Revolution and the Dissolution of Empire by Norrie MacQueen
Topics
#Angola, #Mozambique, #GuineaBissau, #CaboVerde, #CapeVerde, #GuinéBissau, #SãoToméandPríncipe, #SãoToméePríncipe, #SãoTomé, #Príncipe, #portugal, #MozambicanWarofIndependence, #FrentedeLibertaçãodeMoçambique, #FRELIMO, #CarnationRevolution, #EstadoNovo, #fascism, #portuguesecolonialism, #colonialism, #imperialism, #AngolanWarofIndependence, #LutaArmadadeLibertaçãoNacional, #MPLA, #UNITA, #FNLA, #PeoplesMovementfortheLiberationofAngola, #MovimentoPopulardeLibertaçãodeAngola, #NationalFrontfortheLiberationofAngola, #FrenteNacionaldeLibertaçãodeAngola, #UniãoNacionalparaaIndependênciaTotaldeAngola, #NationalUnionfortheTotalIndependenceofAngola, #GuineaBissauWarofIndependence, #PAIGC, #AfricanPartyfortheIndependenceofGuineaandCapeVerde, #PartidoAfricanoparaaIndependênciadaGuinéeCaboVerde, #MovementfortheLiberationofSãoToméandPríncipe, #MovimentodeLibertaçãodeSãoToméePríncipe, #MLSTP, #anticolonialism, #guerrillawarfare, #genocide, #antiblackness, #Africa, #revolution, #controlledopposition, #war, #politicalpolice, #slavercolonialism, #slavercolonizers, #portugueseempire, #antiimperialism, #armedstruggle
This is an analytical study of Portuguese decolonization, dealing with all the Portuguese territories in Africa, especially Angola and Mozambique, but also...
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
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