Socialist Angola, officially the People's Republic of Angola was a Marxist-Leninist state which existed in what is now Angola from 1975 to 1990, being a major player in the first half of the Angolan Civil War.
Positives and Negatives
Positives
- Major efforts were made to combat illiteracy and lack of education. In 1986, the number of primary school students exceeded one and a half million, and nearly half a million adults learned to read and write. The language of instruction remained mainly Portuguese, but experiments were tried to introduce the study of local African languages from the first years of schooling.