![]() ![]() The military revolution had two main aims, both directed at reversing the historical course of centuries: to recognize the independence of the colonies, and to eradicate the national structure that had been based on colonialism. And it was because of the colonial wars in Africa, supposedly maintained to defend the last colonial empire in the contemporary times, that a revolution was launched in Portugal in April of 1974, which toppled the dictatorial regime that had governed the country since 1926. It was with the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 that the country launched the expansion which developed into the first colonial empire of modern times, thus embarking on a course that shaped Portuguese history and opened a new era for the world. It was first presented at the Colloquium “Double Impact: France in Africa and Africa in France”, that took place in the University of California, Los Angeles, on Spring 1975, but it wasn’t published until ten years after, in London, along with the proceedings of the event, from which we now transcribe.Ĭertainly no other non-African country – especially a European one – has had its destiny so closely linked with Africa as Portugal. Written on “May, 1975” (as we can see in the manuscript), this essay traces a brief history of the Portuguese actions in Africa, since the fifteenth Century to the days immediately following the “Revolução dos Cravos”, in 1974. ![]()
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