Abstract
Khoisan hunter-gatherers were in southern Angola at least 23,000 years ago. From AD 1000 Bantu-speaking groups moved south from the borders of present-day Cameroon and Nigeria. Substantial numbers of settlers arrived in present-day Angola during the 13th century, displacing Khoisan groups. Several powerful Bantu kingdoms developed, including the Bakongo, across northern Angola, parts of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo and Gabon, and the Ndongo kingdom further south. The name Angola is derived from Ngola a Kiluanje, the traditional title of the ruler of the Ndongo.
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Anstee, M. J., Orphan of the Cold War: the Inside Story of the Collapse of the Angolan Peace Process, 1992–93. 1996
Brittain, Victoria, Death of Dignity: Angola’s Civil War. 1999
Guimarães, Fernando Andersen, The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: Foreign Intervention and Domestic Political Conflict. 2001
Hodges, Tony, Angola: Anatomy of an Oil State. 2004
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(2023). Angola. In: The Statesman’s Yearbook 2024. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-96076-7_15
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