THE MAIN PRIORITIES OF THE PORTUGAL'S COLONIAL POLICY ON THE WESTERN COAST OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA BEFORE THE BERLIN CONFERENCE OF 1884-1885
The article reveals the main priorities of Portuguese colonial diplomacy on the Western coast of Equatorial Africa in the second half of the nineteenth century. Addressed the features of the key contradictions that emerged before the beginning of the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 between Portugal and the main colonial powers about the patition of Africa.