History of Angola.

Officially Angola Republic of Angola, is a country located in Southern Africa which borders Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia on the east, while to the west is washed coastline Atlantic Ocean. Its capital is Luanda and the northern exclave of Cabinda, which has borders with the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo is located.

The Portuguese were present at various points along the coast which now belongs to Angola since the sixteenth century and interacted in various ways with the natives. The Portuguese presence took hold in the nineteenth century with its penetration into the territory and its effective occupation to be considered a colony of Europeans, as stipulated in the Berlin Conference of 1884, did not occur until the 1920s, after the subjugation of the people Mbunda and the kidnapping of his king, Mwene Mbandu Kapova I.

Angola gained independence from Portugal in 1975, after a long war. However, once emancipated the new country was immersed in an intense and lasting civil war that lasted from 1975 to 2002. The country has a rich mineral and oil deposits and its economy has grown at a very high pace since 1990 especially since the end of civil war. However, the standard of living of the majority of Angolans is very low and their rates of life expectancy and infant mortality are among the worst of world. It is a country with great economic inequalities, as most of the wealth is in the hands of a very small percentage of its inhabitants.

Its government is multiparty democracy with a strong presidential system. Angola is a member of the African Union, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, the Latin Union and the Southern African Development Community.