Portuguese Guineans

Portuguese Guineans are Bissau-Guineans of Portuguese descent.

Portuguese Guineans
Portuguese soldiers in Bissau in the 1960s
Total population
4,067 (2016)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Bissau
Languages
Portuguese
Religion
Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Portuguese Angolans, Portuguese Mozambicans

Guinea was never a colony of mass settlement by the Portuguese Empire like Angola or Mozambique, but nonetheless maintained a settler community during its multi-century rule of the colony mainly consisting of merchants.

During the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence in the 1960s and 1970s, many of the permanent Portuguese population, which numbered around 3,000 in 1974, worked for the Companhia União Fabril chemical corporation, which had virtually controlled Portuguese Guinea by itself.[2] Additionally, there were thousands of Portuguese military personnel stationed in the country at the time.

Many Portuguese settlers chose to return to Portugal following independence in 1974, and the country fell into a bloody civil war. Despite this, there is still a Portuguese population numbering slightly more than 4,000 people in the country.

See also

References
  1. Observatório da Emigração Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Machado, Diamantino P. The Structure of Portuguese Society: the Failure of Fascism. Praeger Publishers, 1991.
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