The case of Joao Pereira da Cunha and Catarina Juliana provides insights on over two centuries of creolization in Central Africa. The detailed proceedings describe patterns of cultural and religious life that were common and popular in Angola in the eighteenth century. People were not normally punished for this type of behavior and did not get…[Read more]

This article shows how the image of Africa as a continent burdened by slave trade and warfare evolved in Finland during the nineteenth century.