What is the relationship between the Catholic University of Angola and Citizens Energys?
Citizens Energy Corporation, a Boston based non-profit energy company, has had continuing commercial interests in Angola in the oil sector since 1987. In 1992, Cardinal do Nascimento approached Michael LeM. Kennedy, the late Chairman of Citizens Energy , with his idea of an Angolan university. At that time, Michael Kennedy was in Angola on behalf of the U.S. State Department, serving as an observer of the first democratic elections in the country. Michael was looking for sustainable ways to use Citizens’ commercial success to help Angola recover from years of civil war, and he was able to convince partner companies to join Citizens Energy in contributing to the Cardinal’s dream of building a new institution of higher learning. In 1996, after a delay due to a new outbreak of war shortly after the elections, donations from Citizens Energy, Mobil (USA) , Saga (Norway), and Energy Africa (South Africa), were used to found the Angola Educational Assistance Fund, a not-for-profit organizatio
