Donald Steinberg arrived in Angola in 1995 as U.S. ambassador to find American oilmen doing more than drilling for coastal crude.
“They were, in fact, the American ambassadors to Angola in that period,” Mr. Steinberg recalls. “The only real relationship was through the oil companies.”
Angola, currently Africa’s top oil producer, is now a priority in Washington. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s overnight visit last month — the first for a U.S. secretary of state — sent the message that America is eager to help transform the former Cold War battleground into a stable energy giant with strong democratic institutions and transparent business practices.
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