Editing Creole peoples (section)

=== Southern Africa ===
Unlike the Americas, the term coloured is preferred in Southern Africa to refer to mixed people of African and European descent. The colonisation of the [[Cape Colony]] by the [[Dutch East India Company]] led to the importation of Indonesian, East African and Southeast Asian slaves, who intermingled with Dutch settlers and the indigenous population leading to the development of a creolized population in the early 1700s. Additionally, Portuguese traders mixed with African communities, in what is now present day Mozambique and Zimbabwe, to create the [[Prazeros]] and [[Luso-Africans]], who were loyal to the Portuguese crown and served to advance its interests in [[southeastern Africa]]. A legacy of this era are the numerous Portuguese words that have entered [[Shona language|Shona]], [[Tsonga language|
Tsonga]] and Makonde. Today, mixed race communities exist across the region, notably so in South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. In colonial era Zambia, the term ''Eurafrican'' was often used though it has largely fallen out of use in the modern era and is no longer recognized at the national level.<ref name="Markey 1982 169–207"/> Today, South African [[Coloureds]] and [[Cape Malays|Cape Malay]] form the majority of the population in the [[Western Cape]] and a plurality in the [[Northern Cape]].

In addition to Coloured people, the term [[mestiço]] is used in Angola and Mozambique to refer to mixed race people, who enjoyed a certain privilege during the Portuguese era.