“…It is worth adding that this is not an isolated case. Orlando Ribeiro did much the same when he published some of the criticisms he had written in confidential reports about white settlements and explicit practices of racism, as it happened in the emblematic Colonato da Cela, in the district of Kuanza-Sul, Angola (Castelo, 2013(Castelo, , 2021a(Castelo, , 2021b(Castelo, , 2022. What seems to be inferred from cases like these is a relative liberty given to geographical discourse, in contrast to what we find in the surveillance that Portuguese colonial and dictatorial state exercised over other disciplinary knowledge coparticipants of the colonial scientific system, namely in social sciences.…”