Title: Bilder aus Angola
Photographer(s): Jochen Moll
Writer(s): Cathérine Gittis and Hans-Dieter Bräuer
Designer(s): Helmut Straubig, Helga Paditz
Publisher(s): VEB F.A. Brockhaus Verlag Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany DDR
Year: 1979
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Language(s): German
Pages: 160
Size: 19.5 x 22.5 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Interdruck,Leipzig, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Angola, 1976
ISBN:
The 1976 civil war in Angola was essentially a struggle for power between two liberal factions, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and theNational Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). At the same time it was one of the many "proxy wars" that characterized the Cold War: in fact, one of the main features of the conflict was the direct and indirect involvement of other countries such as the USSR, Cuba, South Africa, and the United States.In 1979, Angola established diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, and an exchange of cultural relations was initiated between the two nations with the clear German intent to train young generations in socialist doctrine.The GDR was also involved in Africa and the Middle East. Their goal: the integration of African and Arab states into a "socialist world system."
Jochen Moll's documentation is in this sphere moving from the country's history to its latest events of internal conflict.