Is this Angola?

It's been a year since the #Angola17 activists were arrested after a book club meeting #LiberdadeJa pic.twitter.com/Zo7XLLcXsy

— pen_southafrica (@pen_southafrica) June 21, 2016

These Angolans were arrested one year ago after a book club meeting.
They remain in detention.

Here is the book, From Dictatorship to Democracy, by Gene Sharp. 
I, like thousands (millions) of people, read this book many years ago.
You can too.

The book behind the #Angola17 arrest and current detention - #RecommendedBookOfTheWeek pic.twitter.com/w8pyDDZeAm

— Deprose Muchena (@DeproseM) May 24, 2016

What else do you know about Angola?  I know there's this very rich and pretty girl, the president's daughter or something, named Isabel dos Santos, and they speak Portuguese.  Here's more about the government and economy:

Does Angola suffer from a cult of Dos Santos? https://t.co/KDOTCWkau6 pic.twitter.com/HTwkEXrjL6

— BBC Africa (@BBCAfrica) June 15, 2016

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Oooh, what a little bullion can do

This is how Nigerian girl and grandma, Folorunsho Alakija became one of the 1,000 richest people and one of the 100 most powerful women in the world:

• she made dresses, we don't know how many; 
• she came to lead an oil exploration and production business; and 
• since God deserves all the glory, she became a born-again Christian.  

I hope she paid the press for this asinine generous biography.

The ability to consistently wear spooky make-up is also inspiring to certain women.  Powerful, inspiring, beautiful - these words have come to mean the opposites perhaps? 
  
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Forget about PDP and APC and presidential candidates for a minute and listen...

The UBA story: some of us said well, you can't change the country politically, there is a military government in power...but Babangida has given opportunities; so why don't we take a large national institution and see what we can do about changing it and making it better...bringing all those people together was what I was proudest of. And it convinced me, that what I have always believed...you can bring people together from wherever and have them work together and forget their ethnic background;

Extended interviews with Hakeem Belo-Osagie

On Electric Power: There is a fundamental difference between telecoms and power, which makes power more complicated. [For power, we have gas supply, generation, transmission, and distribution all run differently] and for the whole system to succeed all four have to succeed.

On Refineries: There are some countries that can do state institutions, and they do them well. We don't.

On Billionaires: I'm very much against [the] notion that the higher you're on the Forbes' list the more respected you should be. 
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