The Cold War Guerrilla: Jonas Savimbi, the U.S. Media and the Angolan War

ISBN-13: 9780313279898 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 200 str.

Elaine Windrich

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Examining U.S. policy in Angola during the 1980s, this text shows how the Reagan administration and the U.S. media inflated the importance of Jonas Savimbi and helped inflame the civil war in Angola. Pinpointing media strengths and weaknesses in shaping and in reporting on a major crisis in Africa, this ground-breaking work analyzes Savimbi as a cold war guerilla, the role of different media segments in the dirty war in Angola, and the right-wing influence of the Reagan and Bush administrations into the 1990s. This account, providing insights into how the U.S. media covers African and Third World issues, may be a suitable text for foreign correspondents and for courses dealing with U.S. foreign policy, journalism and communications, and with Africa.