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1976: Murtala said if you pull out of Angola and do not give them back their resources, you will also pull out from Nigeria and lose all your money. You will not have Angola nor Nigeria to help your finance.
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Murtala recognised Angola before the whole world agreed.
He gave them money for guns, he threatened oil companies.
This is the full story as I dug into the history books.
Let me break it down the way I would break it down if I was reading it out after my research, because the story has two parts.
One, how Nigeria recognised the MPLA. Two, how much Nigeria gave them.
And I must be honest with you from the start. There is no one single figure in the history books.
There are three figures, and they come from three different sources. I will give you all three, and I will explain why they are different, so that nobody can say I am lying.
First, let us set the scene.
Angola was a Portuguese colony. Portugal agreed to give Angola independence on November 11, 1975.
But there was no one Government to hand over to. There were three liberation movements fighting each other for power.
One, MPLA, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, led by Dr. Agostinho Neto. It controlled the capital, Luanda. It was Marxist, it was supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Two, FNLA, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola, led by Holden Roberto. It controlled the north. It was supported by America, Zaire, and later South Africa.
Three, UNITA, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, led by Jonas Savimbi. It controlled the south. It was supported by America and apartheid South Africa.
So on November 11, 1975, Angola did not have independence with peace. Angola had independence with war.
Now, what was Nigeria doing before Murtala?
Under General Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria was neutral. Nigeria worked with the OAU to bring the three movements together. Nigeria wanted a Government of National Unity. Nigeria wanted reconciliation. Nigeria did not want to pick one side.
Murtala took power on July 29, 1975. He reappraised Nigerian foreign policy. He said Nigeria would no longer be neutral. Nigeria would be activist. Nigeria would be Afrocentric.
Then South Africa invaded Angola.
In October 1975, apartheid South Africa sent its Army into Angola from the south, through Namibia, to fight alongside UNITA and FNLA against the MPLA.
That was the turning point for Murtala.
He said, how can we be neutral when apartheid South Africa is fighting inside Angola? How can we talk about reconciliation when one side is being backed by a racist white minority regime that is oppressing Black people in South Africa itself?
So late in 1975, Murtala announced Nigeria's support for the MPLA.
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