After years of struggle against the colonial forces of Portugal, Angola gained independence in 1975. But, shortly after freeing itself from the colonizer, the country would experience one of the darkest periods in its history, in a fratricidal conflict that caused many thousands of victims.
Many were imprisoned without trial, interned in concentration camps, victims of the most barbaric tortures, executed, or abandoned to death.
In the book “Black Cloud – The Drama of May 27, 1977,” lawyer and university professor Miguel Francisco, better known as “Michel,” recounts the three nightmarish years he spent imprisoned and lived through the most inhumane conditions to which those in Angola accused of collaborating with the “factionalists” Nito Alves and José Van-Dúnem were subjected.





















