While the United States was fighting a bitter war in Vietnam in the 1960s and 1970s, Portugal battled an equally resolute bunch of guerrillas in a spate of insurgencies that stretched halfway across Africa. Very little was known of these conflicts at the time, because South East Asia tended to hog the headlines. While these tropical insurgencies might have lacked the intensity and sophistication of what was going on in Vietnam, tens of thousands of people were to die in Portugal’s African wars. Ultimately, these conflicts would radically alter the political dynamics of the continent. Indeed, it was the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa…

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