Author Fred Bridgland ISBN 0 86954 284 2 First edition, first impression 1986 Published in South Africa by Macmillan South Africa (Publishers) Pty) Ltd P O Box 31487, Braamfontein, 2017 Johannesburg – Associated companies throughout the world First published in Great Britain by Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh Cover design by James Hutcheson Set in 11/12 point Garamond Printed and bound by Billing & Sons, Worcester Great Britain Category Biography Language English
Note Events of recent years have thrust Jonas Savimbi, leader of the UNITA movement in Angola, into the forefront of world media attention. His visit to Washington at the invitation of President Reagan clinched US government support for his cause almost at the same time as his troops were capturing yet more European hostages and marching them the length of Angola to prove how powerful his movement is. The controversial and charismatic Savimbi has been described as “magnetic” by the International Herald Tribune and as a “Gucci Revolutionary” by the Sunday Times.
In Jonas Savimbi: A Key To Africa award-winning journalist Fred Bridgland provides much more than a biography of the UNITA leader; he also portrays in vivid detail the changing face of Africa in general and Angola in particular. The book concerns a country which has been described as Africa’s Vietnam. Angola is the centre of a conflict which has seen major involvement by two foreign armies – South Africa’s and Cuba’s – financial and weapons support from countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, USA, China, France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Israel. Jonas Savimbi is a leading player on this bloody stage of blurred ideologies. This is an important book of which will decide much of the future of Africa.
