Synopses & Reviews
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 20th century on a tide of white migration. Settlers, however, brought racial conflict as well as economic modernization and Portuguese colonies went through spasms of violence which resembled those of Algeria and South Africa. Liberation eventually came but peoples of the old colonial cities clung tightly to their acquired traditions, eating Portuguese dishes, writing Portuguese poetry, and studying in Portuguese universities.
Synopsis
Preface Portugal's Impact on Africa Colonisers and the African Iron Age The Regimento da Mina Early African Trade in Angola Traditions, Migrations and Cannibalism Iberian Conquistadores and African Resisters Angola and the Church Joseph Miller's Way of Death The Coffee Barons of Cazengo Britain and the Ultimatum of 1890 Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama's Experience Youth and War in Angola The Twenty-Seventh of May Angola Revisited Black and White in Angolan Fiction Index
About the Author
David Birmingham is Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent.
Table of Contents
Portugal's Impact on Africa * Colonizers and the African Iron Age * The
Regimento da Mina * Early African Trade in Angola * Traditions, Migrations, and Cannibalism * Iberian
Conquistadores and African Resisters in the Kongo Kingdom * Angola and the Church * Joseph Miller's
Way to Death * The Coffee Barons of Cazengo * Britain and the Ultimatum of 1890 * Colonialism in Angola: Kinyama's Experience * Youth and War in Angola * The Twenty-Seventh of May * Angola Revisited * Black and White in Angolan Fiction