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 |