Os jornais diários de Luanda em vésperas da guerra colonial

Studies on the Portuguese colonial press are scarce. This article proposes a contribution to the characterization of the daily press in Angola on the eve of the colonial war, it draws a profile of the four daily newspapers published in 1960 and looks for singularities in their editorial position – an important exercise in an authoritarian regime, without freedom of the press. One of the conclusions is the lack of signs of luso-tropicalism, a theory used by the government in an effort to legitimate colonialism with a supposed special aptitude of the Portuguese to establish relationships with tropical peoples.