Portuguese West Africa


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Portuguese West Africa:

see AngolaAngola
, officially Republic of Angola (2015 est. pop. 24,300,000), including the exclave of Cabinda, 481,351 sq mi (1,246,700 sq km), SW Africa. Angola is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Congo (Kinshasa) on the north and northeast, by Zambia on the east, and by
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The first part offers a critical analysis in three chapters, in which the authors provide a biographical sketch of Arnott's life, a historical background of the American missionary enterprise in Portuguese West Africa as context for her narratives, and a literary analysis of her texts situated within scholarship on travel writing.
Nellie Arnott's Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America
Portuguese West Africa, now the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, has often been described as having been a Cape Verdean rather than a metropolitan colony.
Letter from Praia, 1978
O'Meara, Report on Economic and Commercial Conditions in Angola (Portuguese West Africa) (London: Department of Overseas Trade, 1937), 40.
The Portuguese empire and the "battle for rubber" in the Second World War
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