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Angola Drafts
Below is what I may have accidentally already edited but not officialized. Still figuring this out.

Angolan Associations
The first Angolan Association was the Casa de Angola de Lisboa, founded in 1971. Its main purpose was to supervise and control the activities of Angolans in Portugal. The association was consisted of Portuguese-Angolans, most of whom were there for military or civil service. The association had also consisted but to varying and typically smaller degrees, colonial-minded Angolans and members of the Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The strength of the Casa de Angola could be attributed on the need to lean on a government, which at the time was a dictatorship. Post-revolution in 1974, Angolan university students took over the association. The Casa de Angola following the revolution became a voice for the MPLA. Until 1986, it was the only recognized Angolan Association in Portugal.

The second association started in 1991 under the name União de Estudantes Angolanos em Portugal (AEAP). This association was founded to serve the interests of students pursuing university educations in Portugal.

In the 1980s, Angolan Associations had elitist implications. This would also include ties to the MPLA and also the Portuguese Communist Party. In the 1990s, this changed as a result of an influx of poor Angolan refugees and immigrants. The socioeconomic condition of this demographic lived in shanty-towns and squatted where it was prohibited. The increased number of Angolans living in Portugal made way for more political associations to form in order to lobby for an immigration policy that benefits the Angolan community at large.

North-South Migration
The rapid growth of the Angolan economy and the demise of the Portuguese colony in the 2008 financial recession created a phenomenon of Portuguese migration to Angola. Of those migrating to Angola are Portuguese-Angolans. This phenomenon has brought back the history and memory of the Portuguese colonization of Angola.