Luso-African trade and settlement in the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau regions, 16th-19th centuries

Date
1980
DOI
Authors
Brooks, George E.
Version
OA Version
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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.
Description
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 24
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Copyright © 1980, by the author.