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Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and population and is the seventh-largest country in Africa. It is bordered by Namibia to the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Zambia to the east, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Angola has an exclave province, the province of Cabinda, that borders the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital and most populous city is Luanda.
Angola has been inhabited since the Paleolithic Age. After the Bantu expansion reached the region, states were formed by the 13th century and organised into confederations. The Kingdom of Kongo ascended to achieve hegemony among the other kingdoms from the 14th century. Portuguese explorers established relations with Kongo in 1483. To the south were the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, with the Ovimbundu kingdoms further south, and the Mbunda Kingdom in the east.
The Portuguese began colonising the coast in the 16th century. Kongo fought three wars against the Portuguese, ending in the Portuguese conquest of Ndongo. The banning of the slave trade in the 19th century severely disrupted Kongo's undiversified economic system and European settlers gradually began to establish their presence in the interior of the region. The Portuguese colony that became Angola did not achieve its present borders until the early 20th century and experienced strong resistance from native groups such as the Cuamato, the Kwanyama, and the Mbunda. (Full article...)
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National Museum of Anthropology may refer to:
- National Museum of Anthropology (Manila), in the Philippines
- Dr. David J. Guzmán National Museum of Anthropology, first directed by David Joaquín Guzmán, in El Salvador
- Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid), national museum of anthropology in Spain
- National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico) (Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA), national museum of anthropology in Mexico City
- Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología (MUNAE), national museum of archaeology, anthropology and ethnology in Guatemala
- National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Peru, national museum of archaeology, anthropology and history in Lima
- Museu Nacional de Antropologia (Angola), in Luanda
- National Museum of Anthropology (Uruguay) in Paso de las Duranas, Montevideo (Full article...)
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Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (20 June 1920 – 3 February 1969) was a Mozambican revolutionary and anthropologist who was the founder of the Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO). He served as the FRELIMO's first leader until his assassination in 1969 in Tanzania. An anthropologist by profession, Mondlane also worked as a history and sociology professor at Syracuse University before returning to Mozambique in 1963. (Full article...)
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- ... that the machete in the flag of Angola symbolizes peasants, agriculture, and the country's war of independence?
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