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 ...

I was born in 1975, the same year that Portugal withdrew from its five African colonies—Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Cape Verde Islands and Guinea-Bissau—becoming the last of the ...

South-east Africa at the beginning of the seventeenth century -- The sieges of Mozambique -- Estevao de Ataide -- Diogo Simoes Madeira -- Nuno Alvares Pereira -- The revolt of Mombasa -- The 1635 ...

Those who have visited Portugal often get the sense that the country turns its back on the rest of Europe, instead gazing out over the Atlantic – with Africa to the south and Brazil across the ocean.

Growing up in Portugal's capital Lisbon, Beatriz Gomes Dias says she couldn't identify with the people she saw on TV, in ads or in museums. Her parents were immigrants from Guinea-Bissau, a former ...