ABSTRACT
Angola has been a Portuguese possession since the 15th century. It occupies the north-west of the Southern African Plateau. Most of the country consists of rolling savannah plains, about 4,000 to 6,000 feet altitude, with a central block of higher country, around which rise a number of streams mostly flowing into the Congo and Zambesi rivers the Okovango, becomes lost in Bechuanaland. The Belgians are energetically tackling in the Congo region some of tropical Africa’s most difficult problems. The Africans are spread more evenly; Leopoldville, Orientale and Kasai have, however, larger populations than the other provinces. The Africans have far more sheep and goats than of any other animals, while the Europeans have chiefly cattle. As elsewhere in Africa, hunger and famine were common before organization began under European direction. About 10 per cent of the African males are employed in European enterprises and receive rations prescribed by the Government; these are physiologically satisfactory.
