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Afrikaners in Angola - 1928-1975
Publisher: Protea Book House (South Africa) 2010
Hardback - 762 pages - 48 photos & maps
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A community of around 400 Afrikaners who remained in Angola after 1928 were left to oblivion, and were later described as a living fossil and victims of their own conservatism. Some did attempt to make a living of mixed farming, transport riding and hunting - decades after this lifestyle had died out elsewhere. This small group of Afrikaners maintained their Afrikanerskap under very difficult circumstances: a problem-atic relationship with the Portuguese authorities, while inadequate economic and educational opportuni-ties, and the resulting poverty, sometimes led to shocking decay. After civil war broke out in Angola in 1975 the last Afrikaners fled Angola, and so the bond between the Angola Boers and Angola came to an end after almost a century. Their interesting and colourful lives are described, and the possibility that wanderlust was the reason for their peregrinations is examined.
