Lusophone Africa
Continental regions speaking Iberian tongue
Lusophone Africa refers to the African countries where Portuguese is an official language, a legacy of Portuguese colonization.
These are Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Equatorial Guinea.
The term comes from *Lusitania*, the Roman name for Portugal: Lusophone Africa represents a significant Portuguese-speaking population outside Brazil.
- AngolaKwanza-using African state
- MozambiqueSoutheast African coastal nation
- Guinea-BissauFormer Portuguese West African colony
- Cape VerdeAtlantic African archipelago
- Atlantic slave tradeForced transatlantic human cargo enterprise
decolonization · independence movements · Catholicism · Maputo · Luanda · oral storytelling · missionary activity · tropics · fado · Salazar · Atlantic · liberation · creole · Portuguese · Bantu · civil war · diamonds · colonial administration
- Guinea-BissauCFA franc, liberation struggle, cashew nuts, rice cultivation, colonial resistance
- Lusophone AfricaAngola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portuguese language
- Afro-PortugueseAngolans, Mozambicans, Lisbon, Creole, colonial ties
- colonial slaverychattel slavery, African slaves, slave markets, slave codes, slave ships
Lusophone AfricaBrazil
Largest South American nation
Portugal · East Timor · Macau · Goa