Afro-Portuguese
Country · Portugal
Lisbon's kizomba, kuduro and batuque scenes come straight from Luanda, Praia and Bissau — and Cova da Moura is their heart.
Afro-Portuguese at a glance
- Country
- Portugal
- Main centres
- Lisbon — Cova da Moura & Amadora · Setúbal · Porto
- Region
- Southern Europe
- How many
- Large communities from Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé and Mozambique
- Languages
- Portuguese · Cape Verdean Creole · Kimbundu
- Dialling code
- +351
The African connection
Portugal began the Atlantic slave trade and ended its African empire last, in 1975. The retornados and the independence-era migrations built today's communities. Lisbon is now the European capital of Lusophone African music.
Key dates for Afro-Portuguese
The dates this community marks — independence, emancipation, and the festivals that fill a hall wherever its people have settled.
Diaspora meets diaspora
AfricAsia began with Africans in Asia. The same story runs through every entry in this section — people of African descent building a life a long way from where their ancestors started.
If you are from Afro-Portuguese and you are anywhere in Asia — studying, working, playing, passing through — there are people here who will know what you are asking before you finish the question.
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