Bridgland Fred. The War for Africa: Twelve Months that Transformed a Continent

Casemate, 2017. — 360 p.The final twelve months of the Cuban–South African conflict has been christened here ‘the War for Africa’ because its consequences reverberated far beyond Angola’s frontiers. The war was one of the most important turning points in the history and development of the continent. It spelled the end of the last great neo-colonial attempts at African conquest, by Cuba and the former Soviet Union. It made possible the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa and a beginning of the end of one-party dictatorship in black Africa.