José Eduardo dos Santos, was fired from her position as head of the country's state oil company Sonangol. In August 2020, José Filomeno dos Santos, son of Angola's former president, was sentenced for five years in jail for fraud and corruption. In July 2022, ex-president José Eduardo dos Santos died in Spain. In August 2022, the ruling party, MPLA, won another outright majority and President Joao Lourenco won a second five-year term in the election. However, the election was the tightest in Angola's history. See also History of Africa History of Southern Africa List of President Bush s of Angola Politics of Angola Portuguese West Africa Slavery in Angola Cities: Benguela history and timeline Luanda history and timeline Arquivo Histórico Nacional (Angola) (national archives) Notes References Attribution: Some of the material in this article comes from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the 2003 U.S. Department of State website. Further reading Gerald Bender, Angola Under the Portuguese, London: Heinemann, 1978 David Birmingham, The Portuguese Conquest of Angola, London: Oxford University Press, 1965. David Birmingham, Trade and Conquest in Angola, London: Oxford University Press, 1966. Armando Castro, O sistema colonial português em África (Meados do século XX), Lisbon: Caminho, 1978 Patrick Chabal and others, A History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa, London: Hurst, 2002 (article on Angola by David Birmingham) Basil Davidson, Portuguese-speaking Africa. In: Michael Crowder (Hg.): The Cambridge History of Africa. Vol. 8. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984 S. 755–806. Jonuel Gonçalves, A economia ao longo da história de Angola, Luanda: Mayamba Editora, 2011 Fernando Andresen Guimarães, The Origins of the Angolan Civil War, London + New York: Macmillan Press + St. Martin's Press, 1998 Cecile Fromont, The Art of Conversion: Christian Visual Culture in the Kingdom of Kongo. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. Beatrix Heintze, Studien zur Geschichte Angolas im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 1996 Lawrence W. Henderson, Angola: Five Centuries of Conflict, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979 W. Martin James & Susan Herlin Broadhead, Historical dictionary of Angola, Lanham/MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004, John Marcum, The Angolan Revolution, vol.I, The anatomy of an explosion (1950–1962), Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, MIT Press, 1969; vol. II, Exile Politics and Guerrilla Warfare (1962–1976), Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, MIT Press, 1978 Christine Messiant, L’Angola colonial, histoire et société: Les prémisses du mouvement nationaliste, Basle: Schlettwein, 2006. René Pélissier, Les Guerres Grises: Résistance et revoltes en Angola