22 Facts About Portuguese Angola

Portuguese Angola refers to Angola during the historic period when it was a territory under Portuguese rule in southwestern Africa.

From 1580 to the 1820s, well over a million people from present-day Portuguese Angola were exported as slaves to the so-called New World, mainly to Brazil, but to North America.

The Portuguese Angola had Catholic beliefs and their military expeditions included from the very beginning the conversion of foreign peoples.

Between 1939 and 1943 the Portuguese Angola army carried out operations against the nomadic Mucubal people, accused of rebellion, which led to the death of half their population.

Portuguese Angola's forces took farms, government outposts, and trading centres, killing everyone they encountered.

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The National Union for the Total Independence of Portuguese Angola started pro-independence guerrilla operations in 1966.

The government of the "State of Portuguese Angola" was the same as the old provincial government, except for some cosmetic changes to personnel and titles.

The military-led coup returned democracy to Portugal, ending the unpopular Colonial War where hundreds of thousands of Portuguese Angola soldiers had been conscripted into military service, and replacing the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and its secret police which repressed elemental civil liberties and political freedoms.

Portuguese Angola became a sovereign state on 11 November 1975 in accordance with the Alvor Agreement and the newly independent country was proclaimed the People's Republic of Portuguese Angola.

In 1951, the Portuguese Angola authorities changed the statute of the territory from a colony to an overseas province of Portugal.

The authority of the government of Portuguese Angola was residual, primarily limited to implementing policies already decided in Europe.

In 1967, Portuguese Angola sent a number of delegates to the National Assembly in Lisbon.

Portuguese Angola had no sizable lakes, besides those formed by dams and reservoirs built by the Portuguese administration.

Portuguese Angola authorities established several national parks and natural reserves across the territory: Bicauri, Cameia, Cangandala, Iona, Mupa, Namibe and Quicama.

Portuguese Angola was indeed a territory that underwent a great deal of progress after 1950.

Portuguese Angola Congo was established a Portuguese Angola protectorate by the 1885 Treaty of Simulambuco.

Portuguese Angola started to develop townships, trading posts, logging camps, and small processing factories.

Diamang had exclusive mining and labor procurement rights in a huge concession in Portuguese Angola and used this monopoly to become the colony's largest commercial operator and its leading revenue generator.

The Portuguese Angola government granted operating rights for Block Zero to the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, in 1955.

Fishing in Portuguese Angola was a major and growing industry.

The Portuguese territory of Angola was a net exporter of fish products, and the ports of Mocamedes, Luanda and Benguela were among the most important fishing harbours in the region.

Non-urban black African access to educational opportunities was very limited for most of the colonial period, most were not able to speak Portuguese Angola and did not have knowledge of Portuguese Angola culture and history.