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Portuguese West Africa

noun

  1. a former name (until 1975) of Angola
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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No very sharp ethnical line can be drawn between Portuguese West Africa and the contiguous portion of the Belgian Congo south and west of the main stream.

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Portuguese West Africa is generally called the Province of Angola.

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Medical Missionary Walter E. Strangway reported that in Portuguese West Africa stomach and duo denal ulcers are common among natives.

He bought a yacht, a private car, a Fifth Avenue mansion, an estate at Great Neck, L. I. The world-wide reach of Sinclair Consolidated was flung out by the burly Destiny Man to Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama; to Angola, in Portuguese West Africa; to Russia.

He was still ahead of the record when a whipping rain beset him over Benguela, Portuguese West Africa.

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