TY  - BOOK
AU  - José Lingna Nafafé
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Colonial Encounters: Issues of Culture, Hybridity and Creolisation
T2  - Portuguese Mercantile Settlers in West Africa
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1102730
N2  - This book explores the first encounter in the mid-fifteenth century between Western Europe and the West African Coast, arguing that it did not produce hostility, but rather a climate of beneficial mutual exchange. It examines West African pre-colonial social history and asserts that around the year 1500 West Africa became a safe haven for those fleeing political or religious persecution in Europe. Among them were mercantile settlers, Tangomãos or Lançados, known to have arrived on the West African Coast after the Portuguese explorers in 1446. They exchanged commodities, culture, religious ideas and practices with West African people. These events raise searching questions on the nature of identity and space.
KW  - Westafrika, Geschichte 1450-1700, Mutual exchange, Mercantile settlers, Creole societies, Creole languages, Creole hybridity, Handel, Kolonialismus, Kulturkontakt, Portugal
LA  - English
ER  -