Africa-Press – Angola. The book “Amboim: Cultural Identity, Resistance to Colonial Occupation and the 1961 War”, by the academics Vasco Catala and Job Francisco was launched this Friday, launched in Luanda, in the university extension building of the Catholic University of Angola.
The work is structured in five chapters. The first begins with a general framework of Amboim in the context of Kwanza Sul, as well as a description of the 1888 epic starring the Portuguese António José Dantas and Ernesto da Silva Melo, with the local populations in Assango, with Ernesto da Silva coming to being enslaved by an African soba of the time and forcibly circumcised in the Kapiri.
The second chapter talks about the pre-colonial history of Amboim (Pre-History, an expression used only as a provocation. The third talks about the Portuguese colonial presence in Amboim (justifications for the “assault” of the Portuguese.
The fourth chapter talks about Amboim and the 1961 revolution (background to the conquest of national independence, – the situation in the DRC – Lumumba, the presidential elections in Portugal, the revolt in downtown Cassanje, the 4th of February, the 15th of March , all from 1961.
The fifth, on the other hand, tells the unprecedented story of colonial repression in Amboim in 1961 (the Statute of assimilated vs. mass grave at Campo da Aviação, Rio Muzigi, the Guaraná hotel for students).
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