Amid the tumult of a crumbling continent, one massive chunk of Africa sleeps on. It is the Africa of Portugal, oldest of all the colonial powers.* Its two big territories straddle the continent’s ...

NEW YORK (December 11, 2013) – Forbes announced today the launch of its latest local-language edition, Forbes Portuguese Africa, in partnership with ZAP Publishing. The first issue will be published ...

Gold was the first attraction, but late in the 1500s the Portuguese became obsessed with the idea that there were silver ...

What can African learn from a creaking Europe? Hannibal looked on at the recent African Development Bank meeting in Lisbon. Why Portugal? Why now? Those were the common refrains among bankers and ...

J. A. da Cunha Moraes was one of several Portuguese photographers established in the Portuguese African colonies in the late nineteenth century. Based in Luanda, Moraes was perhaps one of the ...

South African authorities have arrested a convicted Portuguese banker that had fled from the country in mid-September. “We first want to thank South African police authorities,” Portugal’s Judiciary ...

Part I. Living and dying in the African-Portuguese diaspora -- Demography, distribution, and diasporic streams -- Kinship, family, and household formation -- Disease, mortality, and master power -- ...

Hear selections from Sara Tavares' latest CD. Sara Tavares was 4 when her father left the family to return to Cape Verde, a cluster of islands west of the African mainland. Her mother moved away to ...

Away from the buzz of South Africa’s largest and wealthiest city, generations of Portuguese diners have gathered in one storied restaurant in search of a rare and simple pleasure — the taste of home.

LISBON, PortugalLISBON, Portugal — Police in Portugal searched military installations and homes across the country on Monday following a tip-off that Portuguese troops stationed with a United Nations ...