Portuguese Mozambicans

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Portuguese Mozambican
Luso-moçambicano
Total population
82,593 (0.36% of the population)

Mozambique 57,593 Mozambican citizens (2012)

white Brazilians, Portuguese Africans

Portuguese Mozambicans (Portuguese: luso-moçambicanos) are Mozambican-born descendants of Portuguese settlers.

History

Portuguese explorers turned to present-day

mestiços
and whites revolted against Portuguese rule in 1974.

The return to liberal democracy in Portugal led to the independence of its overseas colonies in 1975. By July 1975 around 80,000 Portuguese Mozambicans were left in the country from around 250,000 that lived in the country in the early 1970s. Of the 80,000 only around 10,000 opted for Mozambican citizenship instead of Portuguese citizenship. The most decisive factors for the preference for white emigration according to US diplomat William Jacobsen was a "combination of doctors leaving for good, plummeting standards of medical care... and uncertainty about country's willingness to allow Mozambican citizens to leave national territory."[3]

Large numbers of Portuguese residents emigrated shortly after, most of them to Portugal, where they were called

retornados, while others moved to neighbouring Malawi, Rhodesia, or South Africa, and/or Brazil[4] and the United States. The most notable legacy of Portuguese Mozambican settlers in South Africa is Nando's, created in 1987, which incorporated influences from former Portuguese settlers from Mozambique, many of whom had settled on the south-eastern side of Johannesburg
, after Mozambique's independence in 1975.

When the

metical has a large value converted from the Euro
. Many among them have adopted the country as their permanent home. Many more Portuguese settlers returned from Portugal, it is estimated by the Mozambican embassy that about 6,000 returned.

Language

Portuguese is the

Ndau dialect of Shona) as second languages. Many educated Portuguese Mozambicans speak English, as it is an international lingua franca and Mozambique is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations
.

Religion

Most Portuguese Mozambicans are

Roman Catholic Church
.

Notable Portuguese Mozambicans

See also

References

  1. ^ Observatório da Emigração Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Contrary to the other settlers which often had lived in Mozambique for two or even three generations, the Portuguese arriving during the last phase of colonial occupation did not become identified with Mozambique.
  3. ^ James Myburgh (18 December 2013). "The ANC before the collapse of Communism". Politicsweb. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ^ Portuguese Immigration (History) Archived 2012-05-16 at the Wayback Machine

External links

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