Glossary

Ambaquistas

Merchant families from the town of Ambaca near Luanda

Apartheid

Racial segregation

Assimilados

Africans who were legally absorbed into colonial culture

Carbonari

A working-class anarchist movement which felled the Portuguese Monarchy in 1910

Creoles

A controversial term which in Angola tended to refer to predominantly black Africans with Portuguese culture

Dash

a gift or bribe

Gastarbeiter

migrant labourers

Luso-Africans

people of mixed Portuguese and African race and/or culture

Mestizos

persons of mixed race (also mestiços)

Musseque

a Luanda slum

pidgin

a mixed language

Pombeiros

peripatetic commercial agents in the Angolan hinterland

Serviçal/Serviçais

an indentured conscript labourer or labourers

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