Perhaps because Portugal has been a colonial power for so long,* most modern Portuguese profess to see no distinction between the homeland and the Overseas Provinces, which are no longer referred to ...

For hundreds of years European merchants had undertaken successful trade missions to the eastern markets; crossing overland, they operated from the city states of Genoa, Pisa, Amalfi and Venice. When ...

The Portuguese believe they have a special kind of colonialism that makes them different from other imperialists. In the Portuguese view, their kind of inspired colonialism gives them the right to ...

J. A. da Cunha Moraes was one of several Portuguese photographers established in the Portuguese African colonies in the late nineteenth century. Based in Luanda, Moraes was perhaps one of the ...

For the first time in Portugal’s history its ruler last week visited her overseas empire. After calls at the tiny, off-Africa islands of Principe and Sao Tome, a steamer carrying Portuguese President ...

Part One: Colonial Africa -- 1. Introduction / Martin S. Shanguhyia and Toyin Falola -- 2. Colonialism and the African Environment / Martin S. Shanguhyia -- 3. Colonial Administrations and the ...

Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted the people it oppressed. But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, ...