Cities in Africa where Portuguese or Spanish is spoken daily? (country, life)

[Martinho]

I'm curious as to what cities if any actually have Portuguese or Spanish as the predominant language for a majority of population excluding Ceuta and Melilla. What languages do they speak in Western Sahara? And are Portuguese-influenced countries of high standard as I've heard?

[Bluefox]

I believe Spanish is widely spoken in Malabo in Equatorial Guinea

[dmlandissf]

Portuguese in Mozambique - I was there for a week in 2019.

[908Boi]

For Portuguese:
Luanda, Angola and throughout much of the country
throughout Cabo Verde
through out Sao Tome

[AFP]

Portuguese for Bissau, Guinea-Bissau but Portuguese-Creole is more widely spoken. I think Portuguese is also spoken in the Bijagós.

[arr430]

Originally Posted by Martinho

I'm curious as to what cities if any actually have Portuguese or Spanish as the predominant language for a majority of population excluding Ceuta and Melilla. What languages do they speak in Western Sahara? And are Portuguese-influenced countries of high standard as I've heard?

When Westeern Sahara was Spanish Sahara, nobody there spoke Spanish, except colonial natives of Spain -- but the population was very tiny. and most Africans spoke Arabic, as in neighboring Mauritania and Morocco.

Mozambique was a different story -- Portuguese was very well established and virtually everyone could speak Portuguese.

A Youtube search will turn up lots of current TV news broadcasts from those countries.

[Tiger Beer]

Lusofonia Festival highlights them all.... here is Mozambique...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKT2IROt98A

Others include Guinea-Bissau, Angola, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe.

[Tritone]

Portuguese is the most firmly-rooted European language in Africa. In the PALOP countries, it's the native language of the majority.

Angolans, for example, only speak Portuguese.

[prospectheightsresident]

Originally Posted by Tritone

Portuguese is the most firmly-rooted European language in Africa. In the PALOP countries, it's the native language of the majority.

Angolans, for example, only speak Portuguese.

That doesn't sound right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola#Languages

Portuguese seems to be more widely-spoken in Angola than European languages are in other countries on the continent where they hold "official" status, but even there a sizable minority speaks other languages, too.

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by prospectheightsresident

That doesn't sound right

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angola#Languages

Portuguese seems to be more widely-spoken in Angola than European languages are in other countries on the continent where they hold "official" status, but even there a sizable minority speaks other languages, too.

I wonder with the eight years since they conducted that poll, in light of the very large proportion of the population being very young, the lower life expectancy of previous generations, school curriculum in Portuguese and increasing urbanization if language usage have dramatically shifted even more heavily towards Portuguese.