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Manuel Rui. Yes, Comrade! Ronald W. Sousa, tr. Gitahi Gititi, foreword. Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 1993. xxvi + 149 pages. $16.95.
Manuel Rui has been an active participant in the civil war which has been tearing Angola apart since 1975. In the transitional government following the end of the struggle for independence against the Portuguese, he served as director of the Information and Propaganda Office; in the first government formed exclusively by the MPLA organization, he became a minister with similar functions. He lived through the ensuing conflict among four armed factions that raged in Luanda, the nation's capital. With one seeming exception, the five stories comprising Yes, Comrade! aim at giving a faithful account of the "War of the Movements."
An American present at the time described the situation as follows: "The explosion came in late April...