Christine Messiant is a sociologist at the Centre for African Studies of the School for Advanced Studies in Social Science (EHESS) in Paris. Her main research focus is the social and political history of the Lusophone countries in Africa, with special emphasis on Angola.

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Accord Issue 15: Angola

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