Portuguese language in Africa as a second language, in countries like Angola and Mozambique, where Portuguese is an official language, but also in countries like South Africa and Senegal, thanks to migrants coming from Portuguese speaking countries. Some statistics claim that there are over 30 million Portuguese speakers in the continent. Like French and English, Portuguese has become a post-colonial language in Africa and one of the working languages of the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC). Portuguese co-exists in Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Principe with Portuguese-based creoles (Upper Guinea and Gulf of Guinea Creoles), and in
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