How Portugal Held Its African Colonies Longer Than Any European Empire

Most people think European empire ended after World War II. Portugal never got the memo. While Britain and France pulled out of their colonies, Portugal's dictator António Salazar renamed them "overseas provinces" and sent a generation of young men to fight three wars at once in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau. It lasted 13 years, longer than America's war in Vietnam, and ended not from outside pressure but from inside, when Portuguese officers overthrew their own government in the 1974 Carnation Revolution. Here's how a small, poor country held on to an empire long after the rest of Europe let go. 🇵🇹📜