Essays on Angolans

Introduction

In this presentation, I will talk about Antonio Agostinho Neto, the first president of Angola. I would briefly discuss his biography and I would also discuss his philosophy.

Biography

Antonio Agostinho Neto was born in Icolo, e-Bengo, Angola on September 17, 1922 (Boddy-Evans, 2013). With his father being a pastor of the Methodist church and his mother a kindergarten teacher (BookRags, 2006), Neto was one of the few Africans who was able to complete secondary school. He later worked for the Portuguese Colonial Health Service until 1947 when he received funding to study medicine in Portugal.

While in Lisbon, Neto met ...

Angola’s Musical Background

The history in the development of different music genre in Algeria can be categorized into two periods namely; the colonial period and the post-colonial period. During the colonial period, the music in the country flourished within its borders with little success in gaining international acclaim especially when compared to music from its neighboring countries such as South Africa. The local language Kimbundu formed the focus of the musical tunes although other artists sang songs in the colonizer’s language-Portuguese (Bram 28). However, favor soon fell on the country with development of local tastes in music grew and bands ...

Angola’s economy is ranked at number 160 as the freest economy as per the current index. The economic freedom of this African country has a score of 46.7. Currently, this score has improved by a point of 0.5 which is attributed to improved government performance in terms of spending, business and human workforce. Even throughout of the 46 sub-Saharan African countries, Angola comes number 38, its score is still low compared to other world and African economies. Angola’s economic freedom is being undermined by corruption political interference especially on judicial affairs. Oil and diamond dependency for revenue by the ...

Introduction According to Taylor (2006), a ship leaving Shanghai today will arrive in Lobito, one of the largest Angolan ports, after exactly six weeks. One then wonders, why the tight financial and commercial links between Angola and China? Despite the geographical distance between the two nations, their financial win-win relationship has been remarkably stable for over a decade now. The essence of the relationship is the crude oil in Angola. Currently Angola is the biggest competitor taking on Nigeria in the oil business in Africa. According to Naidu and Marks (2010), intelligence reports relating to the year 2009 indicated that unrefined ...