"The Portuguese stand out because they boasted the most and did the least. Portugal boasted that Angola, Guinea, and Mozambique have been their possessions for five hundred years, during which time a “civilizing mission” has been going on. At the end of five hundred years of shouldering the white man’s burden of civilizing “African natives,” the Portuguese had not managed to train a single African doctor in Mozambique, and the life expectancy in eastern Angola was less than thirty years. As for Guinea-Bissau, some insight into the situation there is provided by the admission of the Portuguese themselves that Guinea-Bissau was more neglected than Angola and Mozambique!,"
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History of AfricaPortuguese EmpireFormer colonies in AfricaHistory of PortugalFormer colonies in South America
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Walter Rodney, |date=1972 |publisher=East African Publishers |isbn=978-9966-25-113-8 |page=206}}
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