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Title: | The Twenty-Seventh of May: An Historical Note on the Abortive 1977 'Coup' in Angola |
Author: | Birmingham, David |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 77 |
Issue: | 309 |
Period: | October |
Pages: | 554-564 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Angola |
Subjects: | coups d'état 1977 Military, Defense and Arms Politics and Government History and Exploration |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/721965 |
Abstract: | Describes the background of the people involved in the coup (Nito Alves and Jose van Dunem, shortly before accused of factionalism and stripped of their membership of the Central Committee forthwith) and the problems Angola faced during the year after the civil war (failure of the food distribution network, shortage of trained and experienced leaders, organizers and administrators etc.). Notes. |