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DougWheeler2@aol.com Dear Lusophone Africanists: I agree with Hugh McDougall and Kathleen Sheldon, the term 'Portuguese East Africa' was rarely used, but when it was used it was during the period largely before 1955 and largely by Anglophone writers and observers. I recall English speakers in southern Africa in the 1960s referrring to "P.E.A." in a familiar tone, but by then the usage was even rarer, and not used at all among Lusophone people. When in 1951 Portugal's Constitution of 1933 was amended to change the references to the overseas territories from "colony" to "Overseas Province," PEA began to be used less, even by Anglophones. As an overseas province or whatever the legal term Lisbon preferred, the reference was to "Mozambique" not Portuguese East Africa. Regards, Douglas Wheeler Prof.of History Emeritus, Univ.of NH.
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