Manuel Ferreira (18 July 1917[1][2] – 17 March 1992)[3] was a Portuguese writer that became known for his work centered around African culture and literature.
In the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, he lived with Cape Verdean intellectual groups who worked in the literary reviews Claridade and Certeza.
Ferreira became a profound student of the Portuguese expression culture of its former colonies and was considered, within international circles, one of the foremost authorities on its material.
Since the restoration of democracy in Portugal, it was created at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, a chair of African Literature in the Portuguese language.
In 1988, he was interested in an essay named Que Futuro para a Língua Portuguesa em África?, the African emeritus which "was five" [African nations] that took part "in the principle of its language and a cultural fact", transformed Portuguese into an "orality plan and a writer plan".