Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-09-14T12:00:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_TOMAS_DIEL_MELICIAS_COMPLETO.pdf: 1786711 bytes, checksum: 1f60f35d1fca2be6ae670c595b349bfe (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-14T12:00:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DIS_TOMAS_DIEL_MELICIAS_COMPLETO.pdf: 1786711 bytes, checksum: 1f60f35d1fca2be6ae670c595b349bfe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-24 / During the late half of the XX century, the African states? nation building process was deeply influenced by the relationship between two sets of very different ideologies. The historical figures that led the struggle for the liberations of their countries were heavily influenced by modernist European theories, as well as many ancient traditions kept alive by the African people. For almost thirty years, Angola faced a bloody civil war between its many different nationalist movements and their political and national agendas. This thesis analyses both the manifestation and constant reshuffle of Jonas Malheiro Savimbi?s nationalist speeches between his early political years (late 1950?s) and the end of the Cold War (late 1980?s). Founder and leader of the Uni?o Nacional para a Independ?ncia Total de Angola (UNITA), Savimbi?s political and nationalist stances are analyzed not only by their historical contexts, but also by their correlation with theories that seek to examine the many forms and social manifestations taken by the notion of nationalism and national identity. Considering this twofold analytic perspective, this thesis intends to underline the importance of Jonas Savimbi?s legacy to the process of nation building in Angola. / O processo de forma??o nacional dos estados africanos foi, durante a metade final do s?culo XX, profundamente influenciado pela rela??o entre ideologias provenientes de dois mundos completamente diferentes. Os atores hist?ricos que conduziram as lutas e os esfor?os de liberta??o de seus pa?ses foram, por um lado, fortemente influenciados pelas teorias de cunho modernista oriundas do continente europeu, e por outro, pelas ancestrais tradi??es mantidas pelos povos de seu continente. No caso angolano, o pa?s presenciou um sangrento clash ideol?gico proveniente desta dualidade conceitual. Os diferentes projetos nacionais mantidos pelos seus movimentos de liberta??o desencadearam, por quase trinta anos, um sangrento conflito civil. Esta disserta??o pretende, portanto, analisar a manifesta??o e remodela??o dos discursos nacionalistas produzidos por Jonas Malheiro Savimbi ? fundador e antigo l?der da Uni?o Nacional para a Independ?ncia Total de Angola (UNITA) ? entre os primeiros anos de sua carreira pol?tica (final da d?cada de 1950) e o fim do per?odo da Guerra Fria (finais de 1980). Os posicionamentos pol?ticos e ideol?gicos manifestados por Savimbi s?o analisados a partir de seu contexto hist?rico e de sua rela??o com estudos te?ricos que exploram as diversas facetas do nacionalismo e da identidade nacional. Com base nessa jun??o de perspectivas de an?lise, pretende-se explorar a import?ncia do legado da figura pol?tica de Jonas Savimbi para a forma??o nacional de Angola.