Harrison Forman Diary, Angola 1961

In this diary, Harrison Forman, photographer and journalist documented his trip to Angola, Africa in 1961. He begins the diary describing the landscape of the city of Luanda. He talks about the population being mostly white which he attributes to the effect the transplanted Portuguese people who settled there. Forman puts forth his opinions on colonialism in Africa by the French, Belgian, and British who "came to Africa to make money" compared to the Portuguese who came to settle. He comments about relations between the Africans and Portuguese being improved despite occasional stories of brutality and reports of killings of the African people. Forman concludes the diary with an account of Luanda's nightlife, cafés, and shops. He notes that the theaters are modern and the best he has seen on the West Coast of Africa. The diaries are part of the Harrison Forman Papers 1931-1974 housed at the Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. UWM Libraries received the dairies on a loan from the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries and digitized them to accompany the digital collection of Forman's photographs. The diaries were digitized to provide research materials for the Forman's negatives scanned as part of the NEH grant project "Saving and Sharing the AGS Library's Historic Nitrate Negative Images."