África - ‘ANGOLA IN FERMENT’, by Thomas Okuma - Boston 1962 - MUITO RARO;

África - Análise da situação política e social de Angola, à época uma colónia portuguesa quando a guerra dos movimentos nacionalistas (UPA/FNLA e MPLA) tinha-se incitado de forma violenta no ano anterior, contra a administração colonial 

‘ANGOLA IN FERMENT’ 

The Background and Prospects of Angolan Nationalism 

By Thomas Okuma 

Edition Beacon Press 

USA, Boston 1962 

Livro de capas duras, sobrecapa, com 158 páginas (138 + xx), ilustrado com mapa de Angola em muito bom estado de conservação. Capas com algum desgaste. 

De muito difícil localização. 

MUITO RARO.

About this Item: 

Boston:Beacon Press. (1962). 1st edition. (xx)+138pp. Illustated with map.  Hardcover with dust jacket. A very good, clean copy inside and out with no previous owners marks or signatures found.  The dust jacket is lighlty soiled and shelfworn but otherwise in very good condition.

About tha Author: 

“THOMAS OKUMA is a Minister of the United Church of Christ Congregationalist. A native of Hawaii, the firts attended The University of Hawaii and later was graduated from Berea College in Kentucky with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He was sent to Angola in 1959 as a teacher and a missionary and at various Times served there for eight years altogether. Aware of the need for more understanding of the political and social forces at variance in Angola, he took time out from his duties there to participate as a fellow in the African Studies Program at Boston University.“ 

Do ÍNDICE: / CONTENTS: 

Acknowledgments 

FOREWORD, by Rupert Emerson 

INTRODUCTION 

1. - THE SETTING 

- The name, the Land, its resources 

- The people 

- Portuguese occupation 

- Present tribal status 

2. - PORTUGAL’s COLONIAL POLICY 

- Justification 

- The Assimilado 

- The Indígena 

- The ‘New’ look 

3. - DISRUPTIVE FORCES 

- Education 

- Vilas and Cidades 

- Planting of the Cross 

4. - ANGOLAN NATIONALIST GROUPS 

- European nationalism 

- African nationalism 

- Portuguese security measures 

5. - PORTUGAL UNDER FIRE 

- In the United Nations 

- In the United States 

6. - THE OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE IN ANGOLA 

- Factors in Angola violence 

- Portuguese tactics of division and retaliation 

- African reaction to portuguese violence 

- Voice of the Church 

- The myth of a multiracial society 

- The effects upon Angola of violence and crisis 

- The effects upon international opinion of violence in Angola 

7. - WHAT OF THE FUTURE ? 

APPENDIX I - DOCUMENTS 

- Decree n. 18.570, Portuguese Colonial Act 

- Major Program of MPLA 

- Minimum Program of MPLA 

- Declaration of UPA 

- United Nations Declarion 

APPENDIX II - RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES 

- Roman Catholic 

- Protestant 

Notes 

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