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Ambaquistas |
Merchant families from the town of Ambaca near Luanda |
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Apartheid |
Racial segregation |
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Assimilados |
Africans who were legally absorbed into colonial culture |
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Carbonari |
A working-class anarchist movement which felled the Portuguese Monarchy in 1910 |
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Creoles |
A controversial term which in Angola tended to refer to predominantly black Africans with Portuguese culture |
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Dash |
a gift or bribe |
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Gastarbeiter |
migrant labourers |
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Luso-Africans |
people of mixed Portuguese and African race and/or culture |
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Mestizos |
persons of mixed race (also mestiços) |
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Musseque |
a Luanda slum |
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pidgin |
a mixed language |
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Pombeiros |
peripatetic commercial agents in the Angolan hinterland |
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Serviçal/Serviçais |
an indentured conscript labourer or labourers |
