Angola: The Anatomy of an Oil State FROM THE PUBLISHER
How oil and mineral wealth have affected Angolaﾽs prospects for development.
SYNOPSIS
Updated and revised following the death of Jonas Savimbi and the suppression of the UNITA rebels, this new edition discusses prospects for using Angola's oil wealth to end the country's staggering poverty, rising illiteracy, and increasing child mortality. "[Hodges is] a veteran observer of Angola. . . ." -- Foreign Affairs
FROM THE CRITICS
Foreign Affairs
As the United States tries to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern oil, interest is rising in Angola's huge offshore reserves. Should it matter that Transparency International ranks Angola as the fourth most corrupt country in the world, or that the Committee to Protect Journalists calls its president one of the world's "ten worst enemies of the press?" Hodges, an experienced observer who has worked in Angola for the un, thinks so, and he marshals overwhelming evidence to construct a portrait of a country mired in cronyism and mismanagement. This updated edition of his informative 2001 survey of Angola (under a different title) takes into account the end of the country's civil war and the death of rebel chief Jonas Savimbi in 2002. Although these developments deprive government leaders of their main alibi for poor performance in social and economic development, nobody can truly hold them accountable except the Angolan people, who to date have shown little interest in doing so.
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