In the current Angolan war, the effect is more insidious.

He raised domestic expectations with a speech last month saying a solution to the 13-year-old Angolan war was at hand.

But the Angolan civil war continued to rage for almost a quarter of a century more.

"My childhood was stolen by the Angolan civil war," he said.

And that could bring an end to the 13-year Angolan civil war, if Washington doesn't put in a hitch.

Where is their outrage against the Angolan civil war?

He was involved in negotiating an end to the Angolan civil war.

His father was killed in 1984 during the Angolan civil war.

The Angolan war for independence was the subject of many of his novels.

Less certain, diplomats say, is whether the accords will bring a settlement to the Angolan civil war.