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More subaltern settlers? Fernando Tavares Pimenta, ‘The Madeiran Diaspora in Southern Angola: The Chicoronho Community of the Huíla Highlands (1884-1974)’, Portuguese Studies Review, 2025

08Jun26

Abstract: This article highlights the history of the Madeiran diaspora in Southern Angola between 18 84 and 1974. More precisely, it seeks to reflect on the historical evolution of the settlement created by settlers from Madeira Island in the Huila Highlands, taking into account economic, social and political aspects, embodied in the formation of a white colonial community strongly rooted in African soil, whose identity, economic interests and political horizons were fully situated in Africa* Referred to as Cbicoronhos, the Madeiran settlers and their descendants were considered as constituents of a new “white tribe” in Angola. The Africanisation — on a political-identity level — of the Chicoronho community resulted in the assumption of a nationalist stance in favour of Angola’s independence, which materialised in the formation of a political movement named the Angolan United Front. However the complex process of decolonisation led to the implosion of this white colonial community, putting an end to this significant experience of settler colonialism. 


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