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**Socialist Angola**, officially the '''People's Republic of Angola
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'''was a [Marxist-Leninist
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state](Marxism-Leninism_in_Practice "wikilink") which existed in what is
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now [Angola](Angola "wikilink") from 1975 to 1990, being a major player
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in the first half of the [Angolan Civil
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War](Angolan_Civil_War "wikilink").
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## Positives and Negatives
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### Positives
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- Major efforts were made to combat illiteracy and lack of education.
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In 1986, the number of primary school students exceeded one and a
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half million, and nearly half a million adults learned to read and
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write. The language of instruction remained mainly Portuguese, but
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experiments were tried to introduce the study of local African
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languages from the first years of schooling. |