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There are light-skinned or White Angolans mostly Angolans of European descent most significantly from
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
. The vast majority of white settlers in Angola have been of Portuguese ancestry, both in colonial days and today. Germans and
Afrikaners Afrikaners () are a South African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in the 17th and 18th centuries.Entry: Cape Colony. ''Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 4 Part 2: Brain to Cas ...
settled in southern parts of Angola, with Germans concentrated in Moçamedes and Benguela and Afrikaners concentrated in
Huíla Province Huíla is a province of Angola. It has an area of and a population of 2,497,422 (2014 census). Lubango is the capital of the province. Basket-making is a significant industry in the province; many make baskets out of reeds. History From the Port ...
. Most Afrikaners and Germans left for
Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
and
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
by 1975. Until 1975 there was a German-language school in Benguela called the Deutsche Schule Benguela. Currently, Whites are a minority ethnic group in Angola, accounting for over 1% of the country's population. The White population usually speaks
Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...
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History

Portuguese explorer
Diogo Cão Diogo Cão (; -1486), anglicised as Diogo Cam and also known as Diego Cam, was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery. He made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s, explori ...
was the first European to discover Angola. https://books.google.pl/books?id=8QcxEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&dq=europeans+explore+%22angola%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5iYT32rr9AhWFp4sKHZWSDOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM


See also

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Portuguese Angolans Portuguese Angolan ( pt, luso-angolano) is a person of Portuguese descent born or permanently living in Angola. The number of Portuguese Angolans dropped during the Angolan War of Independence, but several hundreds of thousands have again returne ...
* German Angolans *'' Retornados'' *
White South Africans White South Africans generally refers to South Africans The population of South Africa is about 58.8 million people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent censu ...
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White Africans White Africans of European ancestry refers to people in Africa who can trace full or partial ancestry to Europe. In 1989, there were an estimated 4.6 million white people with European ancestry on the African continent. Most are of Dutch, Portug ...
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White Namibians White Namibians (german: Weiße Namibier or Europäer Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia. The majority of White Namibians are Afrikaners (locally born or of White South Africans descent), with many of the White minority ...
* Dorsland Trekkers * History of the Jews in Angola *
White people White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as ...


References and footnotes

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Ethnic groups in Angola {{Angola-stub