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Angola

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The name Angola comes from the Portuguese colonial Reina de Angola, which derived from Angola. The discovery and colonial occupation of Angola was by the arrival of Diogo Cao at the mouth of the river Zaire in 1494. The first governor of Angola was Portuguese whose name is Paulo Dias de Novais. Novais was established in 1576 in the capital city of Luanda, which remains the centre of administration. The colonization of Angola developed a Portuguese colony which Brazil relied on it for the extensive exporting of slaves from Angola. The Constitutional Reform which was liberal in Portugal of 1822 responded to the independence proclamation of Brazil. Brazil then also granted Angola the ...

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ofa colony. Native people could acquire limited citizenship rights only, based on their formal classification as 'assimilated natives', and forced labor recruitment continued.

After World War II, many independence movements started popping up in the region and they were shut down by the Portuguese Military. The major players in these movements were the MPLA or the very popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which were part of the Marxist Party as well as the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. I Angola became an independent state on November 11,1975. In its Constitutional Act of the same date recorded in its Article 60 that the Independence Constitution had been proclaimed by resolution of the Central Committee of the MPLA liberation movement/ In the absence of any constituent assembly process or elections, the Independence Constitution was implemented as an imposed constitution.

On 11 November 1975, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) ...

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Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources published b~ ~illiall1.S Hein & Co, Inc & HeinOnlil~e, published in 2011, as the only relevant text for Angola: the 1975 Constitution. This text ,:as already superseded In 1978 and has since that time been of historical interest only. FOI the complete documentation of all Angolan constitutional enactments see A Correia and B de Sousa A I Historic Constitucionat (Coirnbra, 1996). For the English text of the 1975 Constitution see ' ngota Ihttp://en. wikisou rce.org/wild/Collstitutioll_ of_Angola _( 1975) I. rivalries. This heritage with its deep historical roots was to influence the unfolding of events for a long time.

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Added: 10/3/2014 02:09:24 PM
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