Amid the tumult of a crumbling continent, one massive chunk of Africa sleeps on. It is the Africa of Portugal, oldest of all the colonial powers.* Its two big territories straddle the continent’s ...

What can African learn from a creaking Europe? Hannibal looked on at the recent African Development Bank meeting in Lisbon. Why Portugal? Why now? Those were the common refrains among bankers and ...

“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...

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 ...