“A Climate of Collaboration” The Rhodesian Oil Embargo and Portuguese Diplomacy in Southern Africa, 1965–1967
2011; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0165115311000076
ISSN2041-2827
Autores Tópico(s)African studies and sociopolitical issues
ResumoOn December 23, 1965, the president of newly-independent Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda, wrote a letter to the prime minister of Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar. Kaunda—an outspoken opponent of continued Portuguese rule over the African colonies of Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea—found himself in the awkward position of asking for Salazar's help. Zambia needed Portuguese support, Kaunda wrote, in “confronting the present difficulties provoked by the retaliations of Rhodesia owing to the punitive economic measures of England”
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