5 Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa

Hello guys here Rui Júnior, and today we are going to talk about 5 African countries of official Portuguese language. your lifestyle, religion, culture and some well-known figures from those countries. how about we start with Mozambique?

name Mozambique, was first given to the island of Mozambique, first capital of Mozambique, this name would have derived from an Arab trader who lived there, called Musa Al Bik, or Ben Mussa MbikiThe capital of Mozambique is Maputo (it was called by Lourenço Marques during Portuguese domination). It is also known as the city of acacias in reference to the acacias that are found in every city, the country is incredibly young 50% of the 30 million inhabitants are under 50 years old Mozambique gained its independence in 1975 after 4 sec of colonization. “Mozambicans, Mozambicans, Workers, peasants, combatants, Mozambican People: On your behalf, at zero today today 25 June 1975, FRELIMO Central Committee solemnly proclaims the complete and complete independence of Mozambique.

com cultural diversity in Mozambique 33 to 42 languages ​​spoken Mbila or timbila is a musical instrument created in Mozambique Mozambique it is also the home of Maria de Lurdes Mutola Portuguese is the official and most widely spoken language in country, used by just over half the populationMost Mozambicans living in the areas cities use Portuguese as their primary language. Bantu languages ​​vary widely in their groups, like emakhua, maconde, mwani in the north, and in the center Lomwé, Chwabo, Nyungwe, Sena, Cibalke, Ndau, no sul Tshwa, Bitonga, Chope, Changana, Ronga. Mbila ou timbila é um instrumento musical created in Mozambique Mozambique is also home to Maria de Lurdes Mutola Portuguese is the official and most widely spoken language in the country, used by just over half of the population (50.

4%). Most Mozambicans living in urban areas use Portuguese as the primary language. The Bantu languages ​​of Mozambique, which are the most widely spoken in the country, vary widely in their groups, such as emakhua, maconde, mwani in the north, and in the center Lomwé, Chwabo, Nyungwe, Sena, Cibalke, Ndau, and South Tshwa, Bitonga, Chope, Changana, Ronga.

accompanied by dancers, full of humor and sarcasm, reflect social issues contemporary and serve to record community events . a Mozambican athlete, champion 800m at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Mutola holds the World Record for 1000 meters in indoor track and open track, African record of 1000 meters on open track, and the record African 800 meter open track, is also home to Mia Couto one of the writers most renowned in Portuguese speaking.

because it is Mia Couto is Mozambican I know that many think that Mia Couto is Brazilian but he is Mozambican, I even saw him today when he was Fernando Couto foundation. yeah, I saw him. and some of you asked me for music suggestions or things related to Mozambican culture.

I suggest that you see the music of these two singers Neyma and MrBow I believe you will like it they sing very well and enrich the culture Mozambican. Alias ​​MrBow sings very well of the best of today, not only for me. also won in the united states in the the people award the best male artist of the palop, but also for MTV AFRICA he won some prizes there or MrBow has several prizes is considered not only by me not only in Mozambique around the world a great singer out there and to be sincere songs of him ca in Mozambique beat, beat a lot, maybe beat more than any slipper that you and I have already received in life Mozambique has been growing a lot it is estimated to be a of the biggest growth economies in the next 10 years with the help of mineral coal exports, agriculture, and oil.

Mozambique has gas reserves the size of the reserve from Qatar is believed to be in the top 5 producers in the coming years. In the last 2 years received investments of 28 billion dollars almost double the GDP the country can grow 10% to each year for the next 30 years. Mozambique has a large ethnic composition, the Macuas are the dominant group in the northern part of the country, the sena and shonas (mainly ndaus) they are prevalent in the Zambezi valley and tsongas are prevalent in southern Mozambique.

Others groups include the Maconde, WaYaos, Swahili, Tongas, draft beers and Ngunis (including Zulus). Bantu peoples comprise 97. 8% of the population, while the rest, including white Africans (largely of Portuguese descent), (mestizos of Bantu and Portuguese peoples).

Approximately 45,000 people of Indian descent reside in Mozambique. of its Constitution, Mozambique is a secular state , being expressly prohibited in the text constitutionally any discrimination or meanings based on religion, guaranteeing, also, religious freedom for all citizens. Mozambican law requires that all religious organizations are registered with the Ministry of Justice, The 2017 census revealed that Christians make up 56.

1% of the population (Catholic majority, with about 27. 2%) and Muslims made up 18. 9% of the population of Mozambique, while 4.

8% of people claimed to practice other religious beliefs, especially animism. Cape Verde, officially Cape Verde, is an Atlantic. About 570 kilometers off the coast of West Africa, A located in an archipelago formed by ten volcanic islands in the central region of the Ocean Cape Verdean economy focuses mainly on growing tourism and foreign investment, who benefit from the warm year-round climate, diverse landscape and cultural wealth.

Historically, the name "Cape Verde" comes from the westernmost point of mainland Africa, on the Senegalese coast. and it has also been used to refer to the archipelago. In 1956, Amílcar Cabral, Aristides Pereira, Luís Cabral, among other young people patriots of present-day Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, founded the African Party for Independence Guinea and Cape Verde, which emerged in the context of the African liberation movement, which gained strength after World War II.

These patriots formed a popular unit to fight against what they called "the deplorable Portuguese overseas policy ", stating that "the victims of this policy wished to get rid of the Portuguese domain " Cape Verde rose to Independence on July 5 , 1975. It is also worth remembering that there was any armed liberation struggle within Cape Verdean territory in fact that struggle happened in Guinea Bissau that is, unlike many African countries you cannot say that Cape Verde's independence was uprooted by fire and iron is a theme that revolves around Africans etc but it was actually good. Cape Verde absorbed not only a lot of Portuguese influence, but blood too.

Mixed marriages and relations between the Portuguese and the Africans brought back hundreds of years eventually led the country to experience an entire people with mixed ancestors. Many say that Cape Verde's mestizos are one of the most beautiful people in the world with characteristics practically impossible to find anywhere. It is not common for a person to have dark skin with African descent, but with blond hair and light blue or green eyes Germanic traits.

the people of Solomon Islands are also very beautiful Cape Verde is almost like Brazil Brazil is probably the country with the greatest miscegenation in the world, ie Cape Verde ethnically developed its own racial identity , just as it developed the Creole. O The funny thing is that there are more Cape Verdeans living outside Cape Verde than in the country. there are hundreds thousands of Cape Verdeans living in other countries, such as Angola, Portugal, Senegal, France, Spain, Italy, even Luxembourg for some reason!

And this is the generation after 1975. This may be related to the fact that Before independence, Cape Verdeans take out Portuguese passports, so it’s difficult to have an idea of ​​a specific number, in general these types are known to spread around the world. As for example by Caesaria Évora was the most well-known Cape Verdean singer in the world, known as the "barefoot diva", because she liked to be performed on stage.

there are several musical genres of their own, of which the morna stands out, funaná, coladeira and batuque. one of the most well-known figures today from the country is Walter Tavares, who played in the NBA and now plays for Real Madrid in Spain. Cape Green as it is a large island, it exports seafood to Spain, Portugal, Italy, the United States, Germany among others.

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in Africa Western Guinea-Bissau was part of the Kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Empire of Mali. In 1956, Amílcar Cabral led the founding of the African Party for Independence Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which, in the early 1960s, started the armed struggle against the colonial regime. the struggle for independence continued, and the PAIGC unilaterally declared Guinea-Bissau's independence on September 24, 1973.

In the months that followed, the act was recognized by several countries, mainly communists and Africans. However, Portugal did not recognize Guinea-Bissau's independence until 10 September 1974, after the Carnation Revolution After independence, declared in 1973 recognized in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the name of the country to avoid confusion with former French Guinea and Equatorial Guinea (formerly Spanish Guinea). only 15% of the population speaks Portuguese as a first or second language, Portuguese was established as an official language during the colonial period although many people speak balanta or fula The vast majority of the population (90.

4%) speaks Kriol, a Creole language based on Portuguese, while the rest of the inhabitants speak a variety of native African languages. which makes Guinea-Bissau a multicultural country, with great ethnic and linguistic diversity. Some groups have small linguistic similarities in terms of how to call some things, objects, animals.

mainly at the phonological level, as for the example of ethnic groups mancanha, manjaca and paper. Throughout the 20th century, most Guineans practiced some form of animism. At the beginning of the 21st century, many converted to Islam, which today is practiced by 50% of the country's population.

The majority of Muslims in Guinea-Bissau are of the Sunni denomination, about 2% belong to the Ahmadi sect. Christianity is followed by about 10% of the the country's population and 40% continue to maintain native beliefs. Guinea's famous faces include Amílcar cabral, Joao Nino Vieira, Bruno Martins.

Saint Thomas e Príncipe, officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, is a country located in the Gulf of Guinea, on the western equatorial coast of Central Africa. It consists of two main islands, the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, which are about 140 km from each other and about 250 and 225 km northwest coast of Gabon, respectively. Other nearby countries are Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon.

throughout the 19th and 20th centuries culminated in peaceful independence in 1975. São Tomé and Príncipe has since remained one of the most stable and democratic countries in Africa. With a population of 215 454 inhabitants, São Tomé and Príncipe is the second least populated African sovereign state, after Seychelles, as well as the smallest Portuguese-speaking country.

Considered an underdeveloped country, São Tomé and Príncipe is expected to leave this classification and become a middle -income country by the UN in 2024 Portuguese is the language official and de facto national of São Tomé and Príncipe, being spoken by about 98. 4% of the country's population, a significant part of it as their mother tongue. religious beliefs are immensely complex.

They have their origins in the most varied creeds, considering the range of individuals from various origins, the explanation for this is easily found. According to the CIA- The World Factbook, the population of São Tomé and Príncipe was divided according to their religious affiliations as follows: 77. 5% Christians, (mostly Catholics -), 3,% follow other religions and 19.

4% are not religious. Angola, officially Republic of Angola, The name Angola is rooted in the term ngolo which means "strength" in Kimbundu and Kikongo is a country on the west coast of Africa, Independence from Portuguese rule was achieved in 1975, after a war of independence. Brazil was the first country to recognize Angola's independence.

still in 1975. After independence, Angola was the scene of a long and devastating civil war, from 1975 to 2002, especially between the MPLA and UNITA. UNITA did not comply with its military defeat nor with its exclusion from the political system.

This war lasted until 2002 and ended with the death, in combat, of the historic leader of UNITA, Jonas Savimbi. In the late 1990s, the MPLA decided to abandon the Marxist-Leninist doctrine and change the regime to a system of multiparty democracy and a market economy. The country has vast natural resources, such as large reserves of minerals and oil and, since 1990, its economy had shown growth rates that placed Angola among the largest in the world, especially after the end of the civil war.

l Angola is the land of the Himba also where Kuduro was born and it is believed that the capoeira martial art came from the Angolan slaves who were taken to Basil The population is composed of 37% of talking ovimbundos ( umbundu ideology ), 25% of talking ambimbunds (who speak quimbundo), and 32% from other ethnic groups (such as chocues, ovambos, vambunda and xindongas), O Portuguese is the official language of Angola. Among the African languages ​​spoken The ethnic language with more speakers in Angola is umbundo, spoken by the Ovimbunds, a large majority of Angolans adheres to a Christian or Christian- inspired religion about half its population linked to the Catholic Church and also to Protestant churches introduced during the period colonial, Baptist, rooted mainly in the Congo, Methodists, concentrated in the the environment, and practitioners of traditional African religions constitute a small minority, of residual character, but among the Christians they are with some frequency beliefs and customs inherited from those religions. There are only 1 to 2% of Muslims, almost all of whom are immigrants from other countries Some well-known figures in Angola are Maria Borges who participated in parades in NY FASHION WEEK, Givanchy, Paris fashion week, Anselmo Ralph is also known in Lusophony, a great singer.

and Gilmario Vemba is a great comedian also known.