ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the Company’s urban strategies, identifying the first settlement models and their relationship with the native built pre-existences, as a primordial way of guaranteeing the establishment of the workforce. Communication networks were the first infrastructure to be built, guaranteeing the crucial connections within such a large area. In Dundo, the postal station was founded in 1922 and the radiotelegraph station in 1925. The decentralization and the foreign investment promoted by the Portuguese First Republic, earlier seen as a “magical recipe” to administrate the Portuguese colonies, were being questioned by the Colonial Act, enacted in 1930. The nomination of Quirino da Fonseca, a Portuguese engineer, as Diamang’s Technical Manager, in 1934, would be seen as the starting point of this “company’s nationalisation process”. The road network was an essential infrastructure and it was one of the most praised features of Diamang’s project. The company’s offices and warehouses were located in the north part of the town, facing Dundundo river.
