ABSTRACT
From the end of the nineteenth century, the African continent suffered incursions of a new wave of systematic colonial actions from European countries such as Portugal, England, France, Germany, Belgium, among others. The ‘Third Portuguese Empire’ was configurated in this context. The settlers needed to appropriate land with its wealth and domesticate the Africans in their physical dimension (the body) and their cultural dimension (the mind). To fulfil this purpose there were countless military campaigns, scientific expeditions, and the installation of Christian Congregations for the Missionary Action. The Catholic Congregation of the Holy Spirit started to publish, from 1894 onwards, the monthly scientific magazine Revista Portugal in Africa. The first series, from January 1894 to October 1910, corresponds to its colonial phase, and the second, from January 1944 to December 1973, corresponds to the theological phase. The long and thick edition of magazines in its colonial phase suggests the sociocultural relevance in the process of texture and dynamics of Portuguese colonialism in Africa. Thus, through the method of discourse analysis, the meanings of the representations of Africa and Africans present in the Revista Portugal in África in its colonial phase, from 1894 to 1910, are presented here.
