Page from the general budget of the former Portuguese colonies, included in the second issue of the ‘Boletim da Sociedade LusoAfricana do Rio de Janeiro’.

This was one of several editorial publications of the time of this kind where both the text and the images served the purpose of colonial propaganda based on Luso-tropicalist and racist ideas. The discourse here seeks to emphasise the ‘grandiose’ nature of Portuguese colonisation, placing national identity and pride in direct relation to the size and scope of the colonised territories and peoples. These same ideas can be found in Gilberto Freyre's luso-tropicalist argument and in the Estado Novo propaganda that circulated in Portugal and the former colonies.

Today, it is possible to identify the remnants of this colonial pride, with certain adaptations, in the discourse of extreme right-wing groups, which have been gaining notoriety again in Portugal in recent years and which seek to revive feelings of colonial nostalgia in the name of racist, xenophobic and anti-migration policies.