- Title
- A Spectre Haunting a Journalist and a Devastated Land
- Creator
- Baines, Gary F
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/450055
- Identifier
- vital:74879
- Identifier
- https://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/hist/v68n1/07.pdf
- Description
- In 1986, British journalist Fred Bridgland published the first, and to date the only full-length English language biography of Jonas Savimbi, 1 the leader of UNITA (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola). The mammoth volume raised the profile of Savimbi and elevated the guerrilla to a pantheon that included his idol Mao Zedong and his reputed friend, Che Guevera. 2 Apparently unbeknown to Bridgland, Savimbi was already exhibiting the worst excesses of Mao: the elimination of all potential rivals to his ironclad control of the rebel armed group. What Bridgland could not have foreseen was that Savimbi was destined to die in the same undignified manner as Guevera with the reputation that he had helped cultivate in tatters (255).
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Historia, Baines, G.F., 2023. A Spectre Haunting a Journalist and a Devastated Land. Historia 68, 1, May 2023, 176-181, Historia volume 68 number 1 176 181 2023 2309-8392
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- Rights
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Baines, Gary Fred (Prof Emeritus)
RU Department of History
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