Social Structure and Decolonization in Angola

Abstract

The first part of this article presents a global view of the social structure of Angola at the present time and examines the historical process - where several fundamental phases are to be distinguished - which gave birth to such structure. It follows an analysis of the importance of the educational system upon the consolidation of such structure. Considering the former analysis it is then studied on generical terms, the necessary conditions to the attainment of a new «social project» for Angola, directed by a certain number of essential principles, generally accepted by the political trends which express, in Angola the aspirations of the different strata of the population. A «patent of society» is thus sketched for the Angola of the future, a pattern rooled in racial and ethnic conviviality, in «social justice», in integrated economical development and real independence. As a conclusion, some junctions are pointed out which seem to pertain to the educational system, in the reconvertion of angolan society.