Portugal and Africa

Abstract

The late-medieval Portuguese who arrived in Africa were colonizers in the roman style, gold merchants on an imperial scale, conquistadores in the Hispanic tradition. Although their empire struggled to survive centuries of Dutch and English competition, it revived in the twentieth century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernisation and the Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but the peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired traditions, eating Portuguese dishes, writing Portuguese poetry and studying in Portuguese universities. Table of contents : Front Matter....Pages i-viii Portugal’s Impact on Africa....Pages 1-11 Colonisers and the African Iron Age....Pages 12-24 The Regimento da Mina....Pages 25-32 Early African Trade in Angola....Pages 33-43 Traditions, Migrations and Cannibalism....Pages 44-50 Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom....Pages 51-62 Angola and the Church....Pages 63-81 Joseph Miller’s Way of Death....Pages 82-93 The Coffee Barons of Cazengo....Pages 94-109 Britain and the Ultimatum of 1890....Pages 110-121 Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama’s Experience....Pages 122-132 Youth and War in Angola....Pages 133-141 The Twenty-Seventh of May....Pages 142-154 Angola Revisited....Pages 155-173 Black and White in Angolan Fiction....Pages 174-185 Back Matter....Pages 186-203