ABSTRACT
Southern Africa is the core of Anglo-Saxon Africa and the region that attracted the lion’s share of British investments in Africa. It is in southern Africa that two million white, English-speaking descendants of settlers created colonial communities, and colonial-style states, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But southern Africa had two older colonial traditions that survived alongside the Anglo-Saxon one. In the east, Portuguese colonists from Europe and Asia began to settle in the sixteenth century and in the nineteenth century conquered the large coastal colony of Mozambique. Although the colony became closely integrated into the economy of surrounding British Africa, using British coinage and driving on the left-hand side of the road, Mozambique nevertheless had a colonial culture and language of its own and when decolonized remained a distinctively Latin part of southern Africa.
