So I was reading this thread by @Useless Spectator, when it hit me that most Angolan names I come across are purely Portuguese, even when the owners are pitch black. Kumbe there’s a dark story (pun!) behind the phenomenon? According to this article I stumbled upon, the Portuguese established slave trading outposts in Angola from the 1500s. There, the Portuguese traders interbred with Africans. Their children, the products of this intermarriage, went on to become the new slave traders, until Portugal decided to fully colonize the country in the 20th century. With full colonization, these mixed race slavers were shunned by the new colonial administration, which gave preferential treatment to white Portuguese. These former slavers, now treated as second class citizens, are the ones who went on to spearhead the fight for independence, citing discrimination by the Portuguese among many other grievances. The irony!! So Angolans with African names, like the late Savimbi, still referred to them as slavers even after independence. It’s like our home guards vs freedom fighters here in Kenya, only 50 thousand times more fucked up.
So what this means is that there are charcoal black Angolans who know they’re actually Portuguese. They do not speak any African languages and do not have any African cultural links, they’re goddamn Portuguese!! They’re different from these Kenyan wannabes who teach their children to only speak English, in the sense that even their great grandparents identified as Portuguese. Here’s where I’m a little confused…these guys do not appear to have a drop of Portuguese blood in them. With the Swahilis at the Kenyan coast, there’s evidence of intermarriage with Arabs, but most of these Angolans without African backgrounds are just as dark as the next African. Isabel dos Santos is light skinned because her mother was Russian, but her father is as dark as three moonless nights combined!! I don’t know if all this information is true, this is the internet after all. I hear even most Angolans are not aware of this history, but it sounds weird, at least to me, when an African looking person has purely Portuguese names like Jose Eduardo dos Santos, quite weird. That’s like governor Nanok going by a “proper” British name, like Wilberforce Wilmington Carruthers.
Anyway, read the article for yourself http://www.royalafricansociety.org/blog/don’t-forget-angola’s-horrible-history
Huku pia naona tuliponea. Maybe the Angolan coast proved to be better, as in more profitable for the Portuguese. For a long time Angola was the largest supplier of slaves to Brazil. The fact that these guys built Fort Jesus all those hundreds of years ago shows they were serious about having a permanent base at the Kenyan coast. Huku pia naona tungekuwa na majina funny funny ya ki-portuguese.
The problem with the Portuguese is that they were not as keen as the British on educating the natives, so coming across this kind of information might be a little tricky. Maybe one day these former colonists will open up their archives, though it might take hundreds of years for it to happen. Britain only agreed to pay former Mau Mau some little money because they realized a court case might force them to reveal everything they used to do in colonial Kenya, which would open a Pandora’s box as other former colonies would demand the same.
Portuguese had total assimilation policy. All th3ir former colonies erased their traditional names. Sri Lanka have their de Souzas and da da Counhas Eve de Souza, Pio Gama hello!
Hehehe, Gov. Fernando da Counha Waititu
I think they should be glad that they are even black. Look up the fate of native Americans from South America and their interactions with the Spanish conquistadores. Plain annihilation of peoples
Goans mainly speak the Konkani language, a Prakrit based language belonging to the Southern group of Indo-Aryan Languages. Various dialects of Konkani spoken by the Goans include Bardeskari, Sashtikari, Pednekari, Antruj bhasha, whereas Konkani spoken by the Catholics is notably different from those of the Hindus, with a lot of Portuguese influence in its vocabulary. Konkani was suppressed for official documentation use only not for unofficial use under the Portuguese governance, playing a minor part in education of the past generations. They are mostly multilingual and Marathi has played a significant role for Hindus near the borders of Goa close to Maharashtra and parts of Nova Goa conquest. They use Devanagari and Latin script for education as well as communication (personal, formal and religious). However the entire liturgy of the Catholic church is solely in the Latin script. In the past Goykanadi, Modi, Kannada scripts were also used which later fell into disuse owing to many social, political and religious reasons.[7][8]
None of them identifies as african…and all of them have Portuguese names… nilikuwa na kunguru kutoka huko…pitch black but ukimuita mwafrika mnakosana…i dont blame them