Angola's murderous legacy 23 September 2022 No country in Africa has left such a damning legacy in South Africa as Angola. This blazes out from the British historian and journalist Fred Bridgland's ...

UNITA's main social basis were the Ovimbundu of central Angola, who constituted about one third of the country's population, but the organization also had roots among several less numerous peoples of ...

Although of questionable strategic significance, Bailundo is the traditional capital of Mr Savimbi's Ovimbundu people.

Often, like the recent 55-day siege in Huambo, it was essentially Ovimbundu fighting against Ovimbundu. At the heart of UNITA’s charge of “ethnic cleansing” against the government is the ...

During the visit to the kingdom, located in the municipal village of Bailundo, 75 kilometers north off the city of Huambo, teachers received detailed explanations about the history of Ovimbundu ...

He said that the work contains message that points out to the main habits of the Bantu people, and calls for the need of people to improve their behaviour in society.

“UNITA is at the end of the day a single Ovimbundu force. It has a single ethnic base. That may continue to provide coherence.” The Ovimbundu people make up about 40% of Angola’s population.