“Angola Profile – Timeline.” BBC News, March 7, 2018, sec. Africa. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-13037271.
This detailed timeline shows the critical political changes in Angola since the Portuguese arrived there hundreds of years ago. The slave trading ports up until current events are all noted. Along with my research, we can see the progression of Angolan freedoms being made thereby somewhat achieving the aspirations of freedom that I have been talking all about.
The reason I include this timeline in addition to the timeline on the first page of this blog is because of the political significance of Angola’s past. In my research I focus on contemporary cultural exchange, which often excludes information about the past. Because my research is new and the topics have been recently developed in the past ten to fifteen years it is hard to say where it will lead to. This timeline of Angola, shows the horrendous struggle of oppression that Angola had to overcome to get to the point where it is at now. I mention the civil war and how Kuduro affiliated with the MPLA but there is always more to be said about how dire of a situation Angola was in for decades. Absolutely no hope for a better future, constant warfare with little to no external help. I tried my best to emphasize that point in my writing but this source helps solidify that point. Furthermore BBC created this timeline like many others they have made to simply showcase political turmoil in an area. Their centrist politics often is used to make unbiased timelines like these to show the back and forth of regimes, turmoils and activism quite effectively. Although it does not go into detail about any specific point on the timeline, it differs from my timeline because it is purely political and houses little to no cultural background especially in the contemporary sense.