Angola mozambique guinea bissau cape verde sao tome and principe and equatorial guinea.

Portugal in africa. Portugal used african slaves as early as 1497 in the sugarcane fields on the islands it took over off the african coast. Due to several technological and cultural advantages portugal dominated world trade for nearly 200 years from the fifteenth to the sixteenth century. The portuguese speaking african countries portuguese.

There are portuguese speaking communities in most countries of southern africa a mixture of portuguese settlers and angolans and mozambicans who left their countries during the civil wars. The first attempt made by the portuguese to establish a presence in africa was when some portuguese soldiers captured ceuta on the north african coast in 1415. Millions of blacks were shipped from west african ports to work plantations in north and south america over the next three hundred years.

Paises africanos de lingua oficial portuguesa. It was this search that led the portuguese down the coast of west africa to sierra leone in 1460. Portuguese trading stations in west africa and the slave trade.

Portuguese is spoken in a number of african countries and is the official language in six african states. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Angola cape verde guinea bissau mozambique sao tome and principe and since 2011 equatorial guinea.

A key element of its strategy was rhetoricalit sought to deny that the empire existed at all. Portugal which had a lengthy history of colonial occupation in africa took a particularly uncompromising stance in the 1950s and 1960s. The portuguese colonial empire was the first and the last european empire overseas from the conquest of ceuta 1415 in morocco north africa until the formal handover of macau to the peoples republic of china 1999.

From the coastline excursions in africa and the gradual establishment of trade routes in asia and in the indian ocean and the related emergence of the estado da india the portuguese empire east of the cape of good hope to the colonization projects in the americas. As other empires disintegrated or introduced forms of power sharing it sought to strengthen its imperial grip. The portuguese empire in africa was the earliest and longest lived of the colonial empires lasting from 1415 until 1974 with serious activity beginning in 1450.

The trans saharan trade routes between songhay and the north african traders provided europe with gold coins used to trade spices silks and other luxuries from india.