Quote Originally Posted by TheCurly View Post
I hope this helps
"Gabon's first confirmed European visitors were Portuguese explorers and traders who arrived in the late 15th century. The Portuguese settled on the offshore islands of São Tomé, Pr*ncipe, and Fernando Pó, but were regular visitors to the coast"
Just like they were swapping bronze for slaves in Benin for centuries. {cf the stunning artefacts in the British Museum.}

But they weren't the colonial power at the time when mass education would have started in the late C19th or early C20th and as such, they wouldn't have left a lasting linguistic impression on the country.

{1st in Imperial history, init?}