POLITICSPREMIUM TIMES NIGERIA
Around Africa, elections have become too inconvenient, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu
José Eduardo Van-Dúnem dos Santos was selected by Angola's MPLA to succeed Augustinho Neto in 1979. By 2010, dos Santos had been in power for 31 years, described as 'shy and retreating.'
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