Angola: Empowerment of the Few

This short paper explores these questions. Its findings should be read as approximate and provisional, however, given the low and uneven quality of available information. Some findings are valid only for specific historical moments. In recent decades, Angola has passed through several ‘post-conflict’ situations. Donors responded differently to each one, as their political purposes changed and their leverage grew weaker.The terrain of victimisation shifted as tides of overt and structural violence left sedimentary layers of disadvantage and privilege. This
paper, therefore, offers an analysis of today’s post-war trends in empowerment and disempowerment against a backdrop of earlier waves of conflict in Angola’s troubled history.1