"Portuguese" Style and Luso-African Identity: Precolonial Senegambia, Sixteenth - Nineteenth Centuries

In this detailed history of domestic architecture in West Africa, Peter
Mark shows how building styles are closely associated with social status and ethnic
identity. Mark documents the ways in which local architecture was transformed by
long-distance trade and complex social and cultural interactions between local
Africans, African traders from the interior, and the Portuguese explorers and
traders who settled in the Senegambia region. What came to be known as
"Portugu…