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	Angola (Portuguese West Africa) - LoveToKnow 1911
		External trade, owing to high protective tariffs, was mainly with Portugal; in the period of 1910-20 it was valued at from L3,500,- 000 to L4,500,000 yearly, with a tendency for exports to decrease.
		In 1913 the Portuguese forbade further recruiting in Angola; the Germans replied by presenting estimates to the Reichstag in 1914 for £150,000 towards building a railway from Otavi through the Ovambo country and 22 m.
		The surrender of the Germans in SouthWest Africa to Gen. Botha, in July 1915, removed the German menace to Angola and gave the province the British (South Africans) as neighbours on the south.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Angola_%28Portuguese_West_Africa%29 (1138 words)

	Africa
		Situated in northwestern Africa along the Mediterranean Sea, Algeria is the second-largest country on the continent.
		The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC—formerly Zaire) is situated in central Africa, and is crossed by the equator in its north-central region.
		It is bounded on the N by Egypt, on the NE by the Red Sea, on the E by Eritrea and Ethiopia, on the S by Kenya, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC), on the W by the Central African Republic and Chad, and on the NW by Libya.
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /Africa (5449 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Portuguese people
		Mozambique (formerly Portuguese East Africa) A country situated on the south-east coast of Africa, and bounded by Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Swaziland.
		It borders on the Indian Ocean in the east; on South Africa and Swaziland in the south; on Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi in the west; and on Tanzania in the north.
		Portuguese emus renovated under partnership deal: Alstom is modernising and refurbishing a fleet of emus dating from the 1970s for Portuguese Railways.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Portuguese+people (1476 words)

	The Mariners' Museum: Newport News, Virginia
		During the height of their years of exploration, the Portuguese were attempting to find a route around Africa into the Indian Ocean and eventually trade with India and the Far East.
		In 1415, the Portuguese captured the Moorish city of Ceuta in the northern coast of Africa.
		Since overland routes to Asia were blocked by Ottoman Turks, Portuguese mariners began their slow and persistent progress down the coast of Africa in search for gold and trade routes to the east.
	www.mariner.org /educationalad/ageofex/portuguese_exp.php (527 words)

	Adventure Trips visiting West Africa \| 4 Corners Club
		West Africa is an area with a great span of geography, bioregions, and cultures.
		The northern section of West Africa is composed of semi-arid terrain known as Sahel, a transitional zone between the Sahara desert and the savannahs of the western Sudan to the south.
		The West African Monetary Union (or UEMOA from its name in French, Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine) is limited to the eight, mostly francophone countries that employ the CFA franc as their common currency.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/west_africa/region_facts (2102 words)

	Encyclopedia: Portuguese West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The name Angola is a Portuguese derivation of the Bantu word N’gola, being the title of the native rulers of the region in the 16th century, at the time of colonization by the Portuguese.
		In the Abunda is a considerable strain of Portuguese blood.
		In the coast towns the majority of the white inhabitants are Portuguese.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Portuguese-West-Africa (1402 words)

	West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		West Africa is the region of western Africa that is generally considered to include the countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
		The northern section of West Africa is composed of semi-arid terrain known as Sahel, a transitional zone between the Sahara desert and the savannahs of the western Sudan to the south.
		The West African Monetary Union (or UEMOA from its name in French, Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine) is limited to the eight, mostly francophone countries that employ the CFA franc as their common currency.
	www.punweb.com /article/West_Africa (1108 words)

	West Africa
		Located in sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa is defined by a series of elongated countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, with an exception of Burkina Faso.
		West African agriculture is based on cash crops for exports in the coastal trade areas.
		Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, is a small country to the west of Guinea.
	maps.unomaha.edu /Peterson/funda/Notes/Notes_Exam4/WAfrica.html (1960 words)

	TIE ROOTS OF THE ULTRA-COLONIAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Angola - Portuguese West Africa - is one of these emergent states, trying to shake off the shackles of colonialism, and aiming at securing universal peace and equal relations throughout the world.
		Portuguese forced labour is the nadir of African misery; the zenith of their endurance they reached in 1961, soon to reach its breaking-point.
		By the end of 1961 the Portuguese had to be satisfied to occupy the forest regions of the north from the sky in their bombers.
	www.homestead.com /pandemonium3/files/angola.html (2943 words)

	Africa Continents Facts \| 4 Corners Club
		Africa is thus composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, the southern from north to south, the subordinate lines corresponding in the main to these two directions.
		Africa is by far the world's poorest inhabited continent, and more saliently it is on average poorer than it was 25 years ago.
		In South Africa, which was unique in having a significant number of European settlers, English and Afrikaans are the native languages of a significant portion of the population.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/continent_facts (2282 words)

	FLAWI :: Florida West Africa Linkage Institute
		The Florida/West Africa Institute (FLAWI) was created by an act of the State Legislature in 1991 to promote academic, cultural, and economic exchanges between the state of Florida and the region of West Africa.
		The West Africa region consists of sixteen countries with a total population estimate of 220 million people, spanning over 2,500 miles from the Atlantic Ocean to the interior of the continent.
		West Africa is one of the largest and fastest growing regions of the world.
	www.unf.edu /dept/flawi (565 words)

	Across Africa by Rail
		The railways, whether in Portuguese, Belgian, or British territory on this route, are all on the standard South African gauge of 3 ft. 6 in.
		The colony is bounded on the north by the Belgian Congo, on the east by Belgian Congo and Rhodesia, on the south by the mandated territory of South West Africa, and on the west by the Atlantic.
		On the north the boundary is formed by French Equatorial Africa and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, on the east by Uganda, Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia, and on the south by Northern Rhodesia and Angola.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r011.html (5585 words)

	The Story of Africa\| BBC World Service
		So for the Portuguese there was a leader to negotiate with, who had authority over many people, in a region with great commercial potential.
		She returned and negotiated with the Portuguese on his behalf, agreeing to a Christian baptism in the process.
		In 1665 the Kongo army was defeated by the Portuguese at the battle of Mbwila.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/10chapter4.shtml (1389 words)

	West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal to the Congo is a vast region of tremendous complexity in its historical development.
		A state in west Africa, bounded on the east by the Komoé River, to the west by the Toura Hills, and to the north by the Sikasso region of Mali.
		A state in west Africa, bounded on the north by Mauretania, to the east by Mali, and to the south bt Guinea.
	www.hostkingdom.net /westafr.html (2149 words)

	African Vacations & African Safaris - African Vacation Accommodation
		Within africanvacation.co.za you will be able to find some of Africa's most exquisite and luxurous game venues from where you will be able to explore and experience the big five game (Lion, Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Leopard and Elephant) on your safari tour, while enjoying the hospitality from Game Lodges and other other accommodations available.
		With a few notable exceptions in East Africa, nearly all African countries have adopted official languages that originated outside the continent and spread through colonialism or human migration.
		Recently in South Africa, a form of music related to house music known under the name Kwaito has developed, although the country has been home to its own form of South African jazz for some time, while Afrikaans music is completely distinct and comprised mostly of traditional Boere musiek, and forms of Folk and Rock.
	www.africanvacation.co.za (930 words)

	Election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The principal mechanism for translating that consent into governmental authority is the holding of free and fair elections.
		A pre-election hustings at the Oxford West and Abingdon constituency, England.
		Noam Chomsky and other progressives argue that in the West, and especially the U.S., powerful corporate interests behind the media act as a filter that only lets preordained views be heard by the public and excludes third parties and alternative viewpoints.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections (2504 words)

	Spanish-Portuguese War 1910 - AlternateHistory.com Discussion Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Numbering 12,000 strong, the SAF was supposed to assist the Portuguese in their West African colony and afterwards possibly aid the Portuguese in driving the Spanish from the rest of Portugal's colonies and maybe from all of Africa.
		To the west, south of the Douro River, the Portuguese, aided by some Canadians were entering Villa Nova de Gaia and were quickly taking control of the town as the citizens began rising up against the Spanish in anticipation of the liberation.
		January 12, 1911- In Portuguese West Africa, around Luanda, the Allies had begun besieging the town, when the Spanish began a counterattack against the South Africans (who were to the north-east of the town).
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=752 (13543 words)

	Portuguese West Africa
		THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO French West Africa; Ever since French traders landed on the West African coast in the 15th century, it has enjoyed a pervading Gallic influence.
		Security Council calls for regional approach in West Africa to address such cross-border issues as child soldiers, mercenaries, small arms.
		West Africa Gold Inc. Establishes an Advisory Committee and Appoints Its Chairman.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0917688.html (233 words)

	Angola - Africa
		Angola, formerly Portuguese West Africa, officially Republic of Angola, independent state in southwestern Africa.
		Angola is bounded on the north and east by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire), on the east by Zambia, on the south by Namibia, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
		A small exclave, Cabinda, is located some 30 km (about 20 mi) to the north and is bounded on the north by the Republic of the Congo, on the east and south by the DRC, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/angola.htm (115 words)

	The Portuguese in west-central Africa (from Southern Africa) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Portuguese in west-central Africa (from Southern Africa) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Portuguese influence in west-central Africa radiated over a far wider area and was much more dramatic and destructive than on the east coast.
		Initially the Portuguese crown and Jesuit missionaries forged peaceful links with the kingdom of the Kongo, converting its king to Christianity.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-234041 (145 words)

	Study Notes West Africa Course, Anthro 1150, Dr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Both scrambles were to have devastating effects on West Africa, but we must be aware of the fact that the latter, more advertised scramble of the late 19th and early 20th centuries had its genesis in the Portuguese explorations, their success and the intervention of other European nations in the exploitation of West Africa.
		Generally, the Portuguese were not popular in West Africa and the people used a variety of tactics to manipulate them, restrict them, and channel their behaviors as best they could.
		The Portuguese were feeling the pinch of supporting Brazil, East Indian voyages and Guinea, plus their fortifications were poor, the climate inhospitable and there was a general shortage of potable water in Guinea.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~emendons/notes1.html (11059 words)

	AIMS - West Africa Alliance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The West Africa Alliance is a partnership between churches, agencies and national workers, formed to strategically accelerate the evangelization of unreached people groups throughout Africa.
		In addition to the individuals trained in the West, Africa Aflame has helped train more than 15,000 African pastors in the principles of cross-cultural evangelism.
		During the last 12 months, the West Africa Alliance has led over 4300 African pastors in adopting an unreached people group and has facilitated the formation of 44 strategic partnerships for unreached peoples.
	www.aims.org /westafrica.html (103 words)

	Unity Elusive for African Immigrants
		Porte estimates that approximately 45 percent were born in Africa, many arriving in the past decade.
		Last year, the 2-year-old UAC quietly emerged as a national voice for Africans in America in the aftermath of the Amadou Diallo incident, in which an unarmed street peddler from Guinea was felled in a hail of police bullets in the lobby of his Bronx apartment house.
		Still, some leaders say, if African immigrants can transcend the past by focusing on the future and the pan-African values of commitment to family, education and the elderly, they soon discover there is more that unites than divides.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/story1b060700.html (1320 words)

	IN DEFENCE OF THE GREAT AFRICAN, KWAME NKRUMAH
		You published in, the West African Pilot of August 21, 1948, a precis of the report of the Commission of Inquiry into the disturbances in the Gold Coast last February.
		The paper described West Africa as “that strip of land with all its waterways, hills, mountains and habitations stretching from 30 degree south of the Sahara and 10 degrees west of the Congo on South of the Atlantic Ocean.
		It therefore follows that West Africa comprises all the territories which have been invaded and are temporarily occupied by foreign powers.
	www.africaresource.com /war/vol3.1/uwechia3.html (825 words)

	Fetichism in West Africa
		On my return to Africa in 1900, I was located at Batanga, one hundred and seventy miles north of Gabun, and was assigned to the pastorate of the Batanga Church, the largest of the twelve churches of the Corisco Presbytery, with itineration to and charge of the sessions of the Kribi and Ubenji churches.
		Many trees in the equatorial West African forest throw out from their trunks, at from ten to sixteen feet from the ground, solid buttresses continuous with the body of the tree itself, only a few inches in thickness, but in width at the base of the tree from four to six feet.
		But, to superstitious Africa, that unknown is a certainty, in that it is a source of evil; the spirit of the departed has all the capacity for evil it possessed while embodied, with the additional capacity that its exemption from some of the limitations of time and space increases its facilities for action.
	fraktali.849pm.com /text/archive/afr/fiwa.htm (19690 words)

	West Africa: Backgrounder
		Cinnamon, cloves, mint and cilantro arrived in Africa from their Arab partners, and these flavorings continue to be used most widely in North Africa.
		The Portuguese, French and British did have some influence in regional cuisines, but not as much as one might expect.
		Portuguese explorers brought other items from Europe's cache: citrus, tomato, corn and pineapple, many of which also originated in the Americas.
	www.globalgourmet.com /destinations/westafrica/wafrback.html (171 words)

	Angola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Angola is a country in southwestern Africa bordering Namibia, Congo-Kinshasa, and Zambia, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean.
		The legal system is based on Portuguese and customary law but is weak and fragmented, and courts operate in only 12 of more than 140 municipalities.
		The dwelling-places of the natives are usually small huts of the simplest construction, used chiefly as sleeping apartments; the day is spent in an open space in front of the hut protected from the sun by a roof of palm or other leaves.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Angola.htm (1572 words)

	South West Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is generally accepted that the creation of the South West African Labour Association in 1943 led to the dissent that ultimately resulted in Namibia attaining independence on 21 March 1990.
		The South West African Labour Association intended to regulate labour practices in the territory and prevented especially people from the north from permanently settling outside their traditional areas.
		On 21 June 1971 South Africa’s continued presence in Namibia was declared illegal and in 1976 the UN General Assembly recognised SWAPO as the sole and authentic representative of the Namibian people.
	www.mbec.gov.na /Nam_Nutshell/History/SWA.htm (574 words)

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