Many times, what has been done when interpreting the evolution of the PALOPs, especially by academics from the left-wing, corresponds exac- tly to what the pioneering authors of subaltern studies in India censured, in the authors close to modernist nationalism of the Congress Party, or close to Stalinized Marxism of the Communist Party in India. Thereby meaning a hypertrophy in the speech role, in the role of the elites on the way to globalization and a devaluation in the subalterns’ expressions. Furthermore, if so many articles, thesis’ and social sciences’ books on and from Portuguese speaking countries frequently have included, from the end of the XX century onwards, the word "post(-)colonial" in their titles, most of the times the meaning was merely chronological (“post-co- lonial”), without any links to a theoretical “postcolonial” approach. But also, the essentialisation of colonial heritage brought by postcolonial theory should be avoided, as it underestimates the contemporary pro- duction of subalternity, without which these colonial heritages would rapidly lose their relevance in some social spheres. In this context, this article’s objective is to develop a subaltern analysis of the PALOPs evolution, but in a“post-postcolonial” way, putting in perspective the role of the political discourse of the ruling elites, in order to give priority to the evolution of social structures, and within this framework, come back to analyzing the “social content” of the political culture which appears throughout the discourse. However, the important diversity of the PALOPs is to bear in mind, since they are countries far more shaped by their regions’ African history than by an “ex-Portuguese” identity.