Ilhas Crioulas: o significado plural da mestiçagem cultural na África Atlântica

Abstract

This article deals with the cultural interaction between Africans and Europeans in Atlantic Africa - primarily Angola. A comparison is drawn between the cultural interaction in Angola and similar processes in Senegambia, Gold Cost and the Bights of Benin and Biafra. Likewise the Angolan case, these regions were affected by the transatlantic slave trade. In Angola, however, the cultural mixing reached levels more intense than in other regions in Atlantic Africa, due to the intensity and the duration of the slave trade, as well the encroachment of Afro-Portuguese interests in the hinterland of Luanda in the first half of the seventeenth century.