Angolan Inheritance Succession

Luanda City.

After being baptized by the flames of war, Luanda had long since become riddled with holes and scars. Once East Africa took over Luanda, it began reconstruction work there.

"Luanda's port is somewhat below standard in scale, but there is no value in renovating it now. After all, no one can guarantee whether the enemy will harass this place; they may very well bombard it. Our naval strength in the South Atlantic is currently very weak, so there is no need to carry out large-scale repairs to cities in the Angola Region. Once the war ends, we may have to tear the place down and rebuild it entirely," engineer John Rowell said.

For East Africa, Luanda's port conditions were superior to those of most ports on the East African East Coast. First of all, it was vast. Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city were both, in effect, ports extending inland, while Luanda had a naturally formed giant sandbar stretching out into the open sea, giving it greater potential than the former two.

Of course, its shortcomings were equally obvious: it was far from the main commercial routes. The world's major trade was still concentrated in exchanges across the Eurasian continent, and even the Americas could not break that monopoly in a short time.

Dar es Salaam city and Mombasa city, meanwhile, were naturally close to the main shipping lanes. Angola under Portuguese rule, whether in population or productive capacity, lagged far behind East Africa, and Luanda's foreign trade was consequently extremely backward.

An important role of a colony was to provide its mother country with markets and raw materials. Angola clearly possessed an inherent disadvantage in terms of markets—first and foremost, its population was small. Of course, if the Black population were included, it might still be