Autobiography of Colonial Angola: Memoirs of a Civil Administrator's Wife (1945-1975)

What is it about?

This article analyses the position of a colonist’s wife in Portuguese Angola from the end of the Second World War to decolonisation, through the life story of the wife of a civil administrator.

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Why is it important?

It proposes an insight into the role assigned to colonists’ wives in spreading relations of power in the domestic space and the importance of their political, social and cultural contribution to the portugalisation of the empire. The complexity of relations between colonisers and indigenous populations raises questions on the importance of personal attitudes and of certain strategies of reciprocity or symbolic considerations.