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The Retornados and their 'Roots' in Angola. A Generationnal perspective on the colonial Past and the Post-colonial Present

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Chapter 4: The retornados and their "roots" in Angola. A generational perspective on the colonial past and the post-colonial present A sketch of the field of investigation, Lisbon, May 2013 This year, the Africa Festival, including a celebration of Africa Day, is being commemorated in Portugal throughout the whole month of May. 24 May, in Lisbon, at the Teatro do Bairro: I am watching a performance called The Last Message of Amílcar Cabral to the people of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Some images from documentary films depicting the Portuguese presence in Africa are being projected in a very dark room. Pictures of a family of Portuguese settlers living in a hut are repeated over and over again-they are lost in the depths of Africa. A message is vigorously hammered home for several minutes by one of the performers, a Cape Verdean who describes himself as a political activist: "Decolonise your minds! Decolonise your minds! Decolonise your minds!" The few spectators are young: a dozen people, including a couple comprising a child of retornados and a young Portuguese-Angolan woman. 25 May, Rossio Square: The Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries, the CPLP, is being celebrated by several hundred people and by associations of migrants from Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, São Tomé, Angola and Mozambique, as well as some Portuguese families of retornados: they are all dancing. On the sidelines of this celebration of an Africa that is simultaneously "authentic" and "Lusophone", a group of young Afro-descendant activists are denouncing the neo-colonialist ideology of Lusophony and racism in Portugal.
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Irène dos Santos. The Retornados and their 'Roots' in Angola. A Generationnal perspective on the colonial Past and the Post-colonial Present. Elsa Peralta. The Retornados from the Portuguese Colonies in Africa Memory, Narrative, and History, Routledge, pp.101-124, 2021, Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 978-0-367-70399-8. ⟨hal-04342355⟩
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