1919-1939 History of West Africa Guinea Bissau
since 1975





Portuguese Guinea 1939-1975



In 1941the capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau. The Salazar dictatorship continued beyond World War II into the 1970es. Unlike the French, British and Belgians, Portugal was unwilling to grant independence, or even political representation, to it's colonies. When most African colonies'overseas territories gained independence in 1957/1964, Portugal stubbornly held on to it's colonial empire.
Portuguese Guinea in 1951 was declared an overseas territory, in 1961 an overseas province. AMILCAR CABRAL organized the PAIGC, which began a guerilla war in 1961. The guerillas received assistance from the communist bloc, as well as from neighbouring Guinea.
In 1974, a coup d'etat ended the rightist dictatorship in Portugal, Guinea Bissau had already declared independence in 1973.






EXTERNAL
FILES 		Guinea Bissau, History of, from Infoplease
CASCON Case GPG : Guinea - Portuguese Guinea 1970, by L.P. Bloomfield, L. Moulton
DOCUMENTS Banknote of 1971, from Ron Wise's World Paper Money
REFERENCE Chapter 29 : Portuguese Africa, pp.585-601, in : John Gunther, Inside Africa, NY : Harper & Bros. (1953) 1955 [G]
Article : Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1945 pp.560-561, 1946 pp.591-592, 1947 p.614, 1948 p.600, 1949 pp.532-533, 1950 p.558, 1951 p.565 [G]
Article : Portuguese Overseas Territories, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1952 p.567, 1953 p. 575, 1954 pp. 574-575, 1955 pp. 623-624, 1956 pp. 561-562, 1957 pp. 624-625, 1958 pp. 557-559, 1959 pp. 556-557, 1960 pp. 557-558 [G]
Article : Portuguese Overseas Provinces, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1961 pp. 569-570, 1962 pp. 558-561, 1963 pp.662-664, 1964 pp.677-678 [G]
Article : Colonies and Other Dependencies, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1965 p.254, 1966 p.205, 1967 p.220, 1968 p.218 [G]
Article : Dependent States, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1969 pp.273, 280, 1970 p.280, 1971 p.270, 1972 pp.238, 242, 1973 pp.229, 234, 1974 pp.244-245, 250, 1975 p.229 [G]
Article : Portugal : Portuguese Guinea, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1943 p.1200, 1970-1971 p.1259 [G]
Article : Portuguese Guinea, in : Americana Annual 1940 p.646, 1943 p.607, 1944 p.582 [G]
Article : Portuguese Colonial Empire - Portuguese Guinea, in : Americana Annual 1945 p.591, 1946 pp.613-614 [G]
Article : Portuguese Colonial Empire, in : Americana Annual 1947 pp.576-577 (on events of 1946) [G]
Article : Portuguese Territories - Portuguese Guinea, in : Americana Annual 1957 pp.637-638, 1961 pp.604-605 [G]
Article : Portuguese Territories, in : Americana Annual 1962 pp.610-612, 1963 pp.541-543, 1964 pp.538-539 [G]
Article : Africa - Guinea (Bissau), in : Americana Annual 1974 p.78 (on events of 1973) [G]
Article : Portuguese Guinea, in : New International Year Book Events of 1941 p.530, 1942 p.559, 1943 p.500, 1944 p.489, 1945 p.468 [G]



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