Salazar’s long-range solution is to flood Angola and Mozambique with Portuguese immigrants, making them the only areas in Africa that are being actively colonized by a European power.

The main aim of the Portuguese, when they first came to sub Saharan Africa in 1443, was to enhance and enrich the Portuguese Crown. With a very small population, Portugal had for centuries ...

But he also hoped to find gold. For centuries gold objects from sub-Saharan Africa had made their way to Europe. Some Portuguese even believed that the objects came from a "River of Gold." ...