# Conclusion  
The African diaspora in Portugal, which spanned several centuries, sought to integrate itself by creating forms of coexistence and participation in different spheres of Portuguese life. The many operations, resulting from Portuguese impositions and projects, were not passively accepted by Africans, limiting their reactions to the primacy of flight or violence, but, given the inevitability of the situation of domination, they developed strategies of support aimed at preserving, in a dynamic of change, their cultural roots and inventing innovative situations of Africanity. This effort allowed them an autonomous identity reconstruction, associating Portuguese cultural practices with African civilizational values, deeply dependent on their own historical singularity, creating innovative cultural forms, marking a strongly synchronistic Portuguese heritage that has remained up to now, and opening paths for the understanding of a global Africanity.