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| 1. | Angola: Promises and Lies
Paperback (224 pages) by Karl Maier (Serif Publishing)
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| 2. | Angola (Bradt Travel Guide)
Paperback (240 pages) by Mike Stead (Bradt Travel Guides)
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| 3. | Swimming to Angola: ... And Other Tips for Surviving the Third World
Paperback (308 pages) by Christopher S. Blin (AuthorHouse)
This is not your grandfather's idea of a travel book.Swimming to Angola is a gregarious look at how to help improve Third World conditions, and make it back home safely from 96 countries -- with all limbs hopefully attached in the right places.It tells what to do if challenged by machine gun-waving security forces, or if Gypsies are getting a little too close for comfort. Readers can learn how to drive from the USA down to South America, or even the length of the African continent.Tips include how to manage local currency fluctuations to get the best values, while avoiding a myriad of scams that are designed to separate travelers from their resources. The destinations in these pages have rarely, if ever, made it to those high-gloss volumes of global travel literature. And for a good -- or at least logical -- reason: most people in so-called 'advanced' countries looking for 'exotic' locales to spend time in, normally wouldn't want to go here. These are places that we might consider deep in poverty and hopelessness, where civil wars rage, where dictators confiscate land for their own use, where babies starve, and where travel itself is crimped by men in battle fatigues carrying automatic rifles. It also highlights real danger, moments when less luck or less wise on-the-spot decisions might have been life threatening. However, this is an occupational hazard for any hardy world traveler with a yen to veer off the well-beaten path. Traveling light in the pocketbook, in fact, is one of the rules of this book -- the reason being that you don't want to stand out and become a target, especially in the Third World. Being Western looking enough as it is, you don't need a sign around the neck reading: "Free money for everybody, right here."
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| 4. | Angola Beloved
Paperback (220 pages) by T., Ernest Wilson (Gospel Folio Press)
AFRICA,land of mystery . cruelty . fear . darkness . sounds and smells.In the heart of this fascinating continent lies the little-known but much-in-the-news country of Angola. Read of Angola's history, culture and customs, witchcraft, and folklore as well as T. Ernest Wilson's experience with learning a new language, starting indigenous churches, the gospel in the diamond mines, incredible journeys on foot, hardships and joys, frustrations and fruitfulness in the pioneer missions field. This autobiography is told with humor, warmth, and insight from forty year's experience.
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| 5. | Populair Music from Angola
Audio CD (Sounds of the World)
Part Of Sound Of The World Series.
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| 7. | Culture and Customs of Angola (Culture and Customs of Africa)
Hardcover (200 pages) by Adebayo O. Oyebade (Greenwood Press)
Angola has been brutalized by the civil war, which only ended in 1992. The war's adverse effect on every facet of Angola's post-independence life is clearly evident in the range of topics covered in this volume. The human cost of the war can be counted in the enormous loss of life and large-scale population displacement and in the continued postwar deaths and serious injuries inflicted by mines. The war also severely stunted economic growth and the development of necessary social services. However, since the end of the war Angola is slowly progressing. Many people have returned to their homes to continue their life. The task of rebuilding has been greatly assisted by humanitarian aid. Readers will learn about the nearly 100 ethnolinguistic groups and their various ways of life. Oyebade shows how religion defines the cultural character of the country. Christianity, the dominant religion, is portrayed as more urban-based, popular among the educated elite and middle class. Indigenous religious practices, still popular particularly in the rural areas, are covered as well. Oyebade celebrates the prolific Portuguese-language literary output and the skilled Angolan artists. Discussion of the traditional foods, ceremonies, music and dance, and more rounds out the coverage.
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| 10. | Another Day of Life
Paperback (160 pages) by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Vintage)
- ISBN13: 9780375726293
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