THE PORTUGUESE COLONIAL EMPIRE AND THE INCULCATION OF STEREOTYPES FROM AN EARLY SCHOOL-GOING AGE

Abstract

The Portuguese colonial regime used textbooks and other educational means to disseminate its ideologies of white supremacy. This was enacted in order to better subjugate the colonized in their African, so called 'overseas provinces'. This paper attempts to establish that the majority of the social native extract in the Africa colonial Lusophone particularly in Angola and Guinea Bissau was entrenched in systematic stereotyping during Estado Novo [New State] (1933-1974). This was achieved through using textbooks to inculcate values and the culture of subservience in indigenous children from an early school-going age. We hope with the analysis of two primary school textbooks to expose the colonial ideologies and to warn about the negative consequences of Eurocentric and Afrocentric bias found in current school textbooks especially against minority groups like whites and coloureds in the context of the post-colonial agenda. The study employs the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to analyse data.