Angolan Deputy Education and Culture Minister Francisca Do Espirito Santo has said that about 60 percent of the country’s adult population is illiterate.
The Angolan news agency quoted her as saying that two-thirds of those adults who could not read and write were women. She explained that women constituted the majority of the illiterate because various factors prevented them from attending school during their childhood. Angolans have seen their country devastated by a virtually uninterrupted civil war since its independence from Portugal in 1975.
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