pepper pots

Just eight years ago the town of Huambo was the scene of bloody fighting and a massacre of the local population. It was a typical proxy Cold War scenario with the South Africans and Cubans fighting out a war on Angolan soil for East/West supremacy.

However, one of the strangest things about Huambo and the Angolan people is the way they have put this behind them and moved on. I have discussed this before but bring it up again as an small explanation of the photo on this entry. This bulding, peppered with heavy machine gun and RPG fire, clearly shows the intensity of the fighting. Most of the buildings in this street are like this.

A reminder of the recent past.