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11
November
1975

Angola becomes independent as competing interventions intensify

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📅 11 November 1975 📍 Angola

Portuguese rule ended and the MPLA proclaimed independence in Luanda under Agostinho Neto, amid conflict with rival movements and foreign intervention. Liberation from colonial sovereignty was a major transformation, but it did not bring immediate peace. Angola's struggle exposed how the end of formal colonial rule could coexist with continued contests over national authority and external power.

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Agostinho Neto

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola

Angolan liberation movements