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On 1 August 2019, Afro Nation (also marketed as Afro Nation Portugal) was established as a four-day annual music festival in Portimão, Portugal.Billed as the first festival to celebrate the African Diaspora, the event drew approximately 20,000 attendees daily and featured live music from Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Jamaica, the UK and the US.
2 February – Abílio Rodas de Sousa Ribas, 94, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of São Tomé and Príncipe (1984–2006). [7]4 February – Aga Khan IV, 88, British-Portuguese religious leader, imam of Nizari Ismaili (since 1957) and Olympic skier ().
Afro-Portuguese (Afro portugueses or Lusoafricanos), African-Portuguese (Portugueses com ascendência africana), or Black Portuguese are Portuguese people with total or partial ancestry from any of the Sub-Saharan ethnic groups of Africa. Most of those perceived as Afro-Portuguese trace their ancestry to former Portuguese overseas colonies in ...
People from Portugal's former colonies, particularly Brazil, Portuguese Africa (especially Afro-Portuguese), Macau, Portuguese India and Timor-Leste, have been migrating to Portugal since the 1900s. Many Slavs , especially Ukrainians (now one of the biggest ethnic minorities ) [ 210 ] [ 211 ] and Russians , as well as Moldovans , Romanians ...
On 17 December 2024, a United Nations declaration proclaimed the Second International Decade for People of African Descent, beginning on 1 January 2025, [3] [4] stating that it would be "an opportunity to take concrete actions to confront the legacies of enslavement and colonialism, deliver reparatory justice, and secure the full human rights ...
Even though there has never been a significative Portuguese presence in the country, as of the 2014 uprising there were 20 Portuguese living in the African nation. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Due to the political instability and the death of two Portuguese nationals in 2016, [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] the community has decreased to 5 people only, according ...
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
Local elections will be held in Portugal in late September or early October of 2025. The election consistes of three separate elections in the 308 Portuguese municipalities, the election for the Municipal Chambers, whose winner is automatically elected mayor, similar to first-past-the-post (FPTP), another election for the Municipal Assembly, as well an election for the lower-level Parish ...