Ensino de História e Política em Angola (1950-1978)

Abstract

This thesis sought to understand the construction of history teaching in Angola for Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), from the intertwining of this field with political history. The research focused on the intellectual production, begun in Algiers (1965), by a group of nationalist militants responsible for the elaboration of didactic texts, disseminated during the anti-colonial struggle and who represent the matrix of the textbooks elaborated after the independence of the country, in 1975. The history formulated in these textbooks is subject to the action of the MPLA, treated as the "revolutionary vanguard" capable of building a unitary political community in Angola. The Angolan textbooks recover the nineteenth-century tradition of linking the teaching of history with moral and civic duties in order to form citizens in tune with the directives and rules emanating from the state. History has imposed itself as a true civic catechism, erecting a pantheon of heroes, reporting great achievements, aiming to sediment a secular morality similar to that made explicit by Émile Durkheim