Economic Developments in Angola

Question 1

Which town in Angola became an export center for palm oil and peanut oil etc.

Answer 1

Luanda

Question 2

How did the Benguela Railway serve the economy of Angola (2)

Answer 2

1. It became Angola’s largest employer
2. linked the mines of the Belgian Congo’s Katanga Province to the Angolan port at Lobito

Question 3

Explain the demographic of crop production in Angola (4)

Answer 3

1. Cassava, coffee and cotton (North)
2. Maize (Central highlands)
3. Cattle herding (South, rainfall was lowest)
4. Large plantations run by Portuguese (Palm oil, sugarcane, bananas and sisal)

Question 4

How did the Portuguese government support the economy of its colony (3)

Answer 4

1. Technical Assistance
2. Irrigation Facilities
3. Financial credit

Question 5

Where was coffee production concentrated?

Answer 5

In the Malanje highlands and along the northwestern margins of the Bie Plateau

Question 6

How much coffee was produced in the early 1970s in Angola

Answer 6

More than 200 000 tons and contributed to a fifth of the world’s coffee production

Question 7

What was the impact of the Diamond Company of Angola on Africans

Answer 7

1. It was the employer of more than any other industry
2. It affected the lives of 18 000 African workers through extensive investment and the provision of social services

Question 8

In what provinces did iron ore mining take place

Answer 8

1. Malanje
2. Bie
3. Huambo
4. Huila

Question 9

Impact of the Cambinda Oil company

Answer 9

The production of oil grew to bypassing the exportation of coffee as Angola’s largest export by 1973