16th and 17th centuries) was a Cape Verdean writer, trader and explorer of mestiço (mixed) descent.
He was involved in trading activities on the West African coast between at least the 1560s and 1580s[2] In 1578, he met with the Mali gold traders along the Gambia River.
[4][2] Circa 1594 Almada wrote The Short Treatise of the Rivers of Guinea of Cape Verde between the Senegal River and Baixos de Santa Ana and All the Black Nations on the Coast and its Clothing, Arms, Weapons and Wars, drawing on his personal experience trading in the region.
The work focuses primarily on commercial information, and was an attempt to promote Iberian interests.
This profoundly impacted later authors up to the 19th century, who often borrowed Almada's ethnographic information for the entire area between Senegal and Sierra Leone without analyzing it or updating it.