Jonas Savimbi a Key to Africa - INSCRIBED - By Fred Bridgland

Coronet edition. Edition: Second Edition.
Inscribed by author to Zac de Beer, last leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP).
Publisher: Coronet Books, Great Britain,1988.

With index, five maps, four double-sided plates with black and white photographs. Mass-market paperback, crease to spine, wraps lightly soiled. Top left corner of back cover is about 2cm from corner.

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 troups.  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 surey 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.

A thoroughly researched and finely written book. New Society
He has performed a dauntingly difficult task with skill and honesty. Colin Legum in The Scotsman

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