Africa and the wider world

Creole communities in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4464320
AutoresMalyn Newitt (King’s College, United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen23
Número3
Páginas465-481
Fecha de publicación2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTempo (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1413-7704 • E-ISSN: 1980-542X
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/tem-1980-542x2017v230303
OpenAlexW2767322561
SCIELO_PIDS1413-77042017000300465
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas11

Portuguese creoles were instrumental in bringing sub-Saharan Africa into the intercontinental systems of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean. In the Atlantic Islands a distinctive creole culture emerged, made up of Christian emigrants from Portugal, Jewish exiles and African slaves. These creole polities offered a base for coastal traders and became politically influential in Africa - in Angola creating their own mainland state. Connecting the African interior with the world economy was largely on African terms and the lack of technology transfer meant that the economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world inexorably widened. African slaves in Latin America adapted to a society already creolised, often through adroit forms of cultural appropriation and synthesis. In eastern Africa Portuguese worked within existing creolised Islamic networks but the passage of their Indiamen through the Atlantic created close links between the Indian Ocean and Atlantic commercial systems

Ancient history · Appropriation · Archaeology · Atlantic World · Creole language · Emigration · Ethnology · Geography · Indian ocean · Islam · Latin Americans · Mainland · Political science · Portuguese · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Oceanography