In Africa, nearly 14 million people regard Portuguese to be their local language, but there are over 30 million secondary speakers. The Portuguese language is ranked among the most widely spoken ...

They propose “to create new views, free from prejudice and colonial judgment,” of contemporary African cultures, and in an interview with Global Voices, Marta Lança and Francisca Bagulho talk about ...

Getting Portuguese speakers all over the world to use exactly the same language, at least on paper, has been a slow and difficult task. The aim of the new orthographic agreement — signed by Portugal’s ...

As a single department with two majors—one in Spanish, the other in Portuguese and Brazilian studies—our commitment to intercultural studies reaches beyond traditional fields of national literatures, ...