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Desiderio Costa

In Germany, he found his first refuge in a physician's family in Lüdenscheid, where he also worked in a factory and started to learn German.

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Costa graduated in 1975, shortly before Angola's independence, in petroleum engineering at the Montanuniversität Leoben, a technical university in the Austrian city of Leoben concentrating on mining, metallurgy and materials.

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The Salazar regime in Portugal regarded the colonies as oversea provinces, but denied even those limited rights available under the Salazar dictatorship to the majority of the population of the colonies.

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