1930s in Angola

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In the 1930s in Angola the Portuguese colonial government of António de Oliveira Salazar cut spending on colonization, leading to less emigration to Angola and a decline in the population of Portuguese Angolans.[1]

The Portuguese government passed the Colonial Act in May 1930, centralizing the empire's administration and limiting the power of governor-generals.[1] The settler population in Angola grew from 30,000 in May 1930 to 59,000 in 1931, but declined to 44,000 by 1940. By 1961 however, when the war for independence began, the population had risen to 170,000.[2][3]

In 1930, Portugal's ambassador to Denmark wrote to his superiors, informing them that Angolan separatists had participated in the Sixth Comintern Congress in Moscow, Soviet Union from July–August 1928. L'Ami du peuple, a French newspaper, reported that a "Negro from the Portuguese colony of Angola... announced with a cannibalistic smile that when the hour of their liberation sounded, the black proletariat would know how to exact an unforgettable vengeance [on] the white colonists."[4]

  1. ^ a b Gallagher, Tom (1983). Portugal: A Twentieth-century Interpretation. pp. 173–174.
  2. ^ Brown, Ian. The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Inter-war Depression. p. 190.
  3. ^ Peres, Phyllis (1997). Transculturation and Resistance in Lusophone African Narrative.
  4. ^ Garvey, Marcus; Robert A. Hill (1983). The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers. p. 545.