A travel language, transgressions and rumors

Abstract

The Portuguese language and its importance to the literature of African countries, i.e., former Portuguese colonies. The identitary ties with the “fatherland” decreased and the imposed language acquired different facets in Angola, Cabo Verde, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe. Some links remained, albeit scattered, others dissolved with time. The Portuguese language, crossing the Atlantic, the Indic, arrived in different lands, receiving new knowledges, musicalities, accents; multiplied, pregnant, by Other sperms, sweat and ‘sweat and blood’.

Keywords

• Língua portuguesa. Países africanos. Laços identitários