Angolan means “from Angola” or “of Angola.” An Angolan is a person from that southwest African country whose capital is Luanda, with Namibia to the south and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north. You also say Angolan oil, Angolan music, Angolan Portuguese, the Angolan civil war. The country name is Angola; this word with -n is the people and the adjective, a short cousin of the America → American pattern, though here the ending is only -n, not -an. Portuguese is the official language, a fact that still marks Angolan public life. Use Angolan for people and for things that belong to the country; do not use Angola as if it were already an adjective.