Cabinda

under a contract with Chevron or other various companies around the world.

I worked in, uh, Cabinda, Angola for about 10 years.

I spent a year in, uh, Port-Gentil, Gabon.

Worked in Pointe-Noire, Congo.

In 1954, the Roman Catholic Church set up their own station, Rádio Ecclesia, broadcasting from Luanda, a station which incidentally is still broadcasting today over a national network of a dozen or so FM transmitters covering all the main population centers.

In 1961, oil was discovered by Gulf Oil off the coast of Cabinda, and this has become Angola's second-largest export after diamonds, but it also led to a protracted anti-colonial struggle, which was to consume most of the '60s and early '70s.

These were very unstable and often violent years politically, and radio was very much involved in the conflict.

In 1965, the first 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitter was inaugurated in Luanda, and a year later, A Voz de Angola started broadcasting in association with Rádio Comercial in Huila Province.