Luso-African trade and settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau regions, 16th-19th centuries
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Abstract
This paper examines the economic, social, and cultural influences of Luso-Africans
living along the Gambia River and in the Guinea-Bissau region from the sixteenth
to the nineteenth centuries, in terms of two general themes. The first is
the significance of the sustained economic, social, and cultural ties between the
Cape Verde Islands and the Guinea-Bissau region which began in the fifteenth century,
and which continue to the present day. The second concerns how interrelationships
between African societies, incoming Portuguese and Cape Verdean "strangers," and
their Luso-African descendants changed over time.
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African Studies Center Working Paper No. 24
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Copyright © 1980, by the author.