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| Culture And Customs Of Angola Culture And Customs Of AfricaPosted on September 30, 2010.  Angola has been "brutalized by The Civil War, Which only ended in 1992. The war's adverse effect On Every facet of Angola's post-independence life is clearly "evident in the Range of Topics Covered in this volume. The human cost of the War Can Be Counted in The Enormous loss of life and large-scale population displacement and Continued In The postwar deaths and serious Injuries Inflicted by mines. The war aussi Severely stunted Economic Growth and The Development of Social Necessary Services. However, Since The End of the war Angola IS Steady Progressing. Many People Have Returned to Their Homes to Their life continues. The Task of Rebuilding has been "Greatly assisted by Humanitarian Aid. Readers Will Learn About the Nearly 100 ethnolinguistic groups and Their Various Ways of Life. Oyebade shows how religion defines the Cultural character of the Country. Christianity, The dominant religion, IS portrayed as more urban-based, popular and elite Educated Among the middle class. Indigenous Religious Practices, Still Popular In The Rural Areas particularly, are Covered as well. Oyebade Celebrate The prolific Portuguese-language literary output & the skilled Angolan artists. Talk Of The traditional foods, ceremonies, music and dance, and more rounds out The coverage. CommentsOra Yaeger says... Joining others in the 'Culture and Customs of Africa' series is a focus on Angola - a much-needed survey perfect for both high school and college-level collections assigning reports on individual African nations. History and culture provide broad analysis and Angola's background and development, setting it apart from other African experiences in a book perfect for in-depth analysis. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch Posted on October 2, 2010 Dennis Deshaies says... Mr. Maier provides a basic education on the Angolan civil war of the 90's and the circumstances under which it came it be.He has done an admirable job of coupling historical fact and his own experiences into a easily readable memoir of less than 300 pages.However, it would be unfair to the author to compare his writing to that of Rysczard Kapuczinski who's writings about Africa are presented in a style which is closer to poetry than non-fiction. I may have just got a bad copy, but it was all I could do to keep the book from disentigrating before I could finish reading it.Every time I opened it 2 or 3 pages would pop out of the binding......... Finally, I would like to put a caution out to the potential reader.Please be aware that I do not have the book in front of me at this time and the following quote may not be exact but I promise it is real close.In the closing pages of the book Mr. Maier writes (for reasons that I cannot remember) " the US's failed attempts to impose their new world order on Mogadishu"..........and that was it....no mention of starving people...the UN...or warlords using food as tools of power.Clearly, Mr. Maier is entitled to his views and I would never condemn this well written book for a single misguided statement, but the reader is left wondering if the author may have left other vital pieces of info out of this book in order to further his political agenda. Posted on October 7, 2010 Nova Dunne says... While this is a better book than "This House Has Fallen" the author's most recent book about Nigeria, it suffers from the same problem of being a series of frequently random encounters with the country in question and the events in it over a period of several years.There is some attempt to give the readers a more structured understanding of the historical and political background, but at the end of the day it is a series of points on a timeline as experienced by the author.His experiences are very interesting, and he is a thoughtful and observant writer who feels an admirable degree of passion for those suffering from the ongoing conflict. Posted on October 7, 2010 Leave a Comment |
