Conclusions: Continuity, Rupture and Hybridity

Abstract

In conclusion, this book shows that the changing political and economic power relation between Angola and Portugal is not simply reproduced in everyday postcolonial encounters. On the contrary, colonial hierarchies and stereotypes have a long-standing and profound effect even in this context of drastic changes. Yet, in Luanda, there are also signs of ruptures with the colonial past, which contribute to shape an ambivalent position for the Portuguese migrants. Thus, the encounters between Portuguese migrants and Angolan residents are characterised by a mixture of continuities and ruptures with the colonial past. Moreover, the chapter concludes that Portuguese-Angolan colonial and postcolonial history has created hybrid subject positions, which are not characterised by a harmonious postlusotropical mixture but by an intimacy fraught with tensions.