Angola Quotes

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia. Elliott Abrams

Year Before Ruled Angola Troops Had Roaming Globe Cuban Around Were Been Began American Regime Ethiopia Setbacks

I would like to pass into history as the man of the economic miracle of Angola... That's my mission. Joao Lourenco

History Man Would Miracle Angola Economic Like Mission Pass

As Miss Angola, I've already done a lot to help my people. Leila Lopes

People Angola Miss Lot Done Help

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too. Mia Farrow

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas! Nicholas Kristof

Work Day Mines Visited Out Some Angola Clear Countries Been Bananas Sniff Times Trained Tuberculosis Human Land Much

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. Ryszard Kapuscinski

Remember Independence Three Months Correspondent Angola Only Leading Period Up

In Ghana, Nigeria, Togo, Angola and Cameroon maize is a staple, yet the earliest mention of maize in west Africa comes from a Portuguese document that lists it as being loaded on to slave ships bound for Africa. Kwasi Kwarteng

Ghana Angola Mention Bound Document West Cameroon Ships Africa Lists Being Staple Earliest Nigeria Slave Loaded Portuguese