Angolan Joăo Lourenço largely proved critics wrong after coming to power as only the country’s second post-civil war leader in 2017.
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Africa’s mass trauma
Since the end of colonialism, apartheid and white-minority regimes, many African countries appear to have had disproportionally large numbers of psychopathic, narcissistic and just mean-spirited leaders. All these types of leaders in many cases focus on their own self-aggrandisement, often deliberately sowing…
Africa’s liberation wars have shaped history, politics and society
In many cases, liberation movements eventually achieved their ultimate aim, at the cost of enormous sacrifices, and managed to gain access to power…
Africa’s freedom fighters and the challenge of transformation
The end of an era for liberation movements? After defeating colonialism, white minority…
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