Metaphors of Angola's Half a Century

By Joao Canoquena

Metaphors of Angola's Half a Century offers a panoramic and morally charged analysis of Angola's post-independence history through a unique metaphorical lens. It traverses five decades (1975-2025) of political, economic, and institutional evolution, exposing how authoritarian persistence, corruption, and incompetence hollowed out a potentially prosperous nation.
Structured in four parts - Foundations of Power, The Machinery of the State, The Political Economy of Resource Wealth, and Reform, Resistance, and the New Angola - the work examines how political systems evolved not to serve but to restrain, and how moral weakness at the top translated into collective poverty below.
Its distinctive narrative style fuses history, political economy, and literary analysis, allowing readers to see and feel the structures of domination.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GXJ4Q1V6
• ISBN13: 9798257646416
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"