page_title: Luso-Asians
section_title: Luso-Asians in Southern Africa
hierarchical_section_title: Luso-Asians / Luso-Asians in Southern Africa
caption_attribution_description: English: The Traditional Zulu Dancers in Miss Indoni 2018 Parade in Durban's busiest Street, Dr Pixley ka Seme (Old West) Street. Miss Indoni is an annual event that usually occurs during South Africa's Heritage Month which is in September, 24 September being Heritage Day, but last year due to the passing away of the Zulu Prince on this month the event had to take place on the 15 of December 2018, and the Parade happens the day before Miss Indoni to encourage people to come to the event. This is an image with the theme "Play" from: South Africa
context_page_description: Luso-Asians are people whose ethnicity is partially or wholly Portuguese and ancestrally are based in or hail primarily from Portugal and Asia. They historically came under the cultural and multi-ethnic sway of the Portuguese Empire and retain aspects of the Portuguese language, Roman Catholic faith, and cultural practices, including internal and external architecture, art, and cuisine that reflect this contact. The term Luso comes from the Roman province Lusitania, roughly corresponding to modern Portugal.
  Luso-Asian Art is also known as Indo-Portuguese Art, Luso-Ceylonese Art, Luso-Siamese Art, Luso-Malay, Sino-Portuguese Art, or Nipo-Portuguese Art. Examples of this art, especially of furniture and religious art are found throughout Europe and in the islands of Macaronesia.
  Luso-Asians traded and influenced each other within Asia as well as with Portugal and other parts of Catholic Europe, especially Spain and Italy. This exchange produced distinctive elements in domestic, civic and religious Luso-Asian architecture, as well as Luso-Asian cuisine.
context_section_description: Luso-Asians have been part of the history of the present states of Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi since the sixteenth century. These Luso-Asians had their origin in India, but also Thailand and Macau. Luso-Asians were important in the role of the Afro-Portuguese prazo landlords.
  In the seventeenth century Portuguese sources describe the Goans in Mozambique as "Canarans".
caption: Indian dancers in the Indoni Parade, 2018, Durban, South Africa
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