Senhores do Sol e do Vento | Lords of the Sun and Wind — True stories of Portuguese, Angolans and other Africans

"(...) I fell on "Lords of the Sun and Wind", José Bento Duarte. And with him I immersed myself in the history of Angola (...) It is the full chronicle of the colonization of the coast, seeking to consolidate warehouses of commerce or points of support en route to the supreme ambition of the Indies. Bento Duarte tells it in absorbing prose, naming the protagonists — people of all kinds where heroes, rascals, adventurers, dedicated employees and rebels without king or roque are mixed. For these people, the vast Interior of Angola has always been a place of unnamed mysteries and dangers, but also of eldorados and riches waiting to be taken (...) Bento Duarte evokes angolan land as so many still feel it."
(José Pedro Barreto, Economic Weekly, 1 October 1999)

Index

Preamble

FIRST PART — MEMORY OF ANCIENT TIME
Chapter I - The Gates of the Congo
Chapter II - The African Chimera
Chapter III - The Embryo of a Colony

SECOND PART - TURNING SOUTH
Chapter IV - Namibe Walkers
Chapter V - The Portuguese Phoenix

THIRD PART — THE BASTIONS OF CHELA
Chapter VI - Roots in Dust
Chapter VII - Invested in the Plateau

FOURTH PART - LAND BUILDERS
Chapter VIII - The Puritans
Chapter IX - Pilgrims of the Unknown

FIFTH PART — THE GLÁDIO AND THE BIBLE
Chapter X - Saints, Pioneers and Falcons
Chapter XI - Iron and Fire Borders
Chapter XII - The Plague

PART 6 - THE AMBÓS CHALLENGE
Chapter XIII - The Gordium Knot of Cunene
Chapter XIV - Long Hours in Rio
Chapter XV - The Pembe Vau Massacre

PART SEVEN - THE LATEST BATTLES
Chapter XVI - Rematch in Cuamato
Chapter XVII - Against Germans and Cuanhamas

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