I left Zambia from the Ndola airport on the 8th of April, via South Africa to Luanda and the following day took another flight to fly to Luena where my contact lives. Angola is a big country and has unique history. Angola was a Portuguese colony. This has led to most of the people knowing how to speak but not know how to write Portuguese. This has also locked the country from the wide English-speaking world. Angola needs English to open up to the rest of the world.
After independence the Marxist/ socialist type of government that ruled the country strove to wipe out religion, but failed. The Roman Catholic Church which has about 70% of the professing Christians of the population of Angola, was the only church with influence. The other 30% was shared among the other religious denominations that include Traditional, Baptists, Evangelicals, Adventists, Pentecostals and others. Each of these had fragmented to spilt into smaller groupings doted around the outskirts of the cities. These churches would be attended by the poor and none influential people of the society.
I was taken to the office of the Provincial admini ...
