Jonas Savimbi: A Key to Africa - Fred Bridgland (Paperback)

Coronet Books, 1988

671 Pages

Dimensions: 18 cm x 11 cm

Softcover. Good condition. Binding intact. Pages tanned.

With index, five maps, 8 black and white photographs/plates

There's a war going on.  A long, bloody and confusing war.

Ever since the Portuguese pulled out of their African colony of Angola, the country has been a battleground of tribal loyalties, imported ideologies, mercenary bands and foreign armies.

From Cuba and South Africa came the troops.  From the USA and Russia, from China, Britain, East Germany, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Morocco have come arms and money.

The dominant figure in the fighting and manoeuvering is surely Jonas Savimbi, leader of the UNITA movement, pioneer nationalist yet backed by the Americans, friend of the late Che Guevara, follower of Mao's theories of warfare yet armed and supported by South Africa; a graduate of a Swiss university and a charismatic soldier.

JONAS SAVIMBI: A KEY TO AFRICA is a detailed examination of a powerful and complex figure.  Vividly written by a journalist with extensive personal experience of the country that has been named Africa's Vietnam, this is an important book about an important war.