 Angola is a country of riches, beauty, and struggles. Angola was first settled by San Hanta Gadres before the Bantu people invaded the land. It was later colonized by the Portuguese and on the 11th of November 1975, Angola gained its independence from Portugal after 14 years of bloody war struggles. After independence, Angola entered a long period of civil war that lasted until 2002, one of the longest civil wars in Africa, which killed over 500 to 800,000 people and over 1 million people were internally displaced. This is the sad story of this beautiful country that you see today.