A Family in the Musseque

For some aid organisations, Angola is a ‘complex emergency’. It is complicated and there are few ideas of how to deal with it. The usual responses of the outside sending food and other emergency supplies may not be appropriate, and may compound the problems caused by the over-optimistic advice of the outside world surrounding the elections in 1992. This book attempts to show how people live in a ‘complex emergency’, how they attempt to build and maintain their own forms of organisation in these difficult circumstances, and how they can try to build on that.