Portuguese Africans

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Portuguese Africans (Portuguese: luso-africanos) are Portuguese people born or permanently settled in Africa (they should not be confused with Portuguese of Black African ancestry). The largest Portuguese African population lives in Portugal numbering over 1 million with large and important minorities living in South Africa, Namibia and the Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and Equatorial Guinea).The descendants of the Portuguese settlers who were born and "raised" locally since Portuguese colonial time were called crioulos. Much of the original population is unnumbered having been assimilated into Portugal, Brazil, and other countries.

Guinea-Bissau became an independent country in 1974, followed by the rest of the colonies in 1975. Most Portuguese residents, for this reason, returned to Portugal, where they were called retornados. Some from Angola or Mozambique went to South Africa, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana or the United States and Brazil or Europe.

When the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries was founded in 1996, some Portuguese and a number of Brazilians of Portuguese racial background arrived for economic and educational aid to the Portuguese-speaking African countries. Some of these Portuguese adopted them as their permanent home.

Most Portuguese Africans are Portuguese-South Africans, and Portuguese Angolans, mainly as a result of direct migration from Portugal, namely from Madeira.

Populations by country[]

Source^[1]

Country	Population	Year
Portugal	1,390,000	2010
Angola	380,767	2010
South Africa	300,000	2010
Mozambique	250,413	2010
Cape Verde	22,318	2010
Guinea-Bissau	10,314	2020
Namibia	4,783	2018
São Tomé and Príncipe	4,705	2020
Morocco	2,445	2020
Congo	1,485	2019
Swaziland	1,162	2010
Zimbabwe	1,243	2014
Democratic Republic of the Congo	1,000	2011
Kenya	782	2014
Algeria	515	2019
Malawi	506	2014
Botswana	466	2019
Egypt	342	2019
Tunisia	243	2020
Senegal	230	2020
Equatorial Guinea	134	2014

See also[]

• Portuguese Americans
• Portuguese Angolans
• Portuguese Guineans
• Portuguese Mozambicans
• Portuguese-South Africans

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