Portuguese Africans country in 1974, followed by the rest of the colonies in 1975. Most Portuguese residents, for this reason, returned to Portugal, where they were called "retornados". Some from Angola or Mozambique went to South Africa, Malawi, Namibia, or Zimbabwe, and Brazil or the United States. When the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries was founded in 1996, some Portuguese and a number of Brazilians of Portuguese racial background arrived for economic and educational aid to the Portuguese-speaking African countries. Some of these Portuguese adopted them as their permanent home. Most Portuguese Africans are Portuguese-South Africans, mainly as a result of direct migration
West Africa (magazine) to every cause which holds out a prospect of advancing the position of West Africa as a prosperous and contented member of the Empire...". Having begun as a source of news about events and issues in the British colonies of West Africa as well as a link between the colonial power and its administrators in the field, for 80 years "West Africa" magazine was considered a major source of information about the region. In the mid-1960s it was the target of a successful takeover bid by Cecil Harmsworth King's media empire. In 1978 it began to publish poetry and fiction