“…Armando Jorge Lopes, a Mozambican linguist, places Lusophony amongst the Mozambican beads "of language, culture and inclusiveness," beads that are introduced into the thread of communication -that are "beads of coloured glass and other materials," and "are also beads of the world" (Lopes, 2017, p. 288). Carlos Alberto Faraco, in turn, refers, with a certain degree of suspicion, to Lusophony, but this did not prevent him from coordinating the I have been interested in thinking about the other of European expansion, specifically Portuguese expansion, for more than two decades (Martins, 1990(Martins, /2016(Martins, , 1991(Martins, , 1996(Martins, , 2006(Martins, , 2011b(Martins, , 2014(Martins, , 2015a(Martins, , 2017(Martins, , 2018a(Martins, , 2018b(Martins, , 2018c. I was interested by that which the chronicler Pero Vaz de Caminha wrote in a letter to King D. Manuel in 1500 11 , describing with awe a docile, peaceful people with fine noses, who ran naked on the beach without any embarrassment or shame.…”