Description
Bantu tribes inhabited Angola for many centuries before the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century.
And then, orchestrated by the Portuguese, the slave trade between Brazil and Angola began, and it is said to be responsible for the exportation of over three million native Africans (against their will) to the Portuguese colony of Brazil.
In the 19th century Angola became a colony of Portugal, and then an overseas province, but over the years that followed there was a strong desire for independence, and it was finally achieved in 1975.
By all accounts, as one of the largest countries in Africa, it should be flourishing. Huge diamond and oil resources (worth billions), would provide the needed economic opportunities, but instead, decades of civil war has ravished the country. Today most Angolans live in poverty, and the future remains dim.
Most of the mentioned oil reserves are found in the enclave of Cabinda, separated from the mainland by a sliver of land belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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