Angola and Mozambique: From Liberation to Humanitarian Crises

Southern African settler colonies moved slowly to self-determination. The transition in Portugal's colonies of Angola and Mozambique was especially difficult. Both areas experienced a generation of fighting for independence, and subsequently fractured into intractable insurgencies. This course grounds a broader study of decolonization, sovereignty, social authority, and governance in a case study of Angola and Mozambique from the 1890s to the early twenty-first century.