ABSTRACT
“Most decisive was the collapse of commercial circuits. Settlers, shopkeepers, wholesale merchants and transporters departed en masse in the period 1974–1976… The flows of goods and services for rural households began to dry up as distribution systems collapsed and factory output and imports fell. This was the beginning of the ‘goods famine’ in Angola's countryside, a condition persisting to present… These processes were driven by war.”
David Sogge, 1994