Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973 .

Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973, at the cost of a long and bitter struggle against seemingly implacable odds. This was a time to be proud of, and there was also a moment about two decades ago, when it looked like a trendsetter for democracy. However, like all the country historical dictionaries, it tells it several times and in several ways. First, the chronology traces the history of what became Guinea-Bissau, and this over a period of centuries and not just decades.

Guinea-bissau, formerly Portuguese Gunea, is one of West Africa's smallest nations, but its history is unusually rich. The three major ethnic groups of West Africa - Fula, Mande, and Senegambians - are all represented there. The two combine expertise in the fields of history and anthropology and have greatly expanded coverage of precolonial and resistance history, women and health, ethnomusicology, and economic development as well as adding events and individuals from contemporary multi-party campaigns and democratic elections.

Guinea-Bissau is a small country in West Africa, and yet it managed to wrest its independence from Portugal back in 1973 .

He is presently professor of history and African studies at Rhode Island College. He already visited the liberated zones of Guinea-Bissau back in 1973, and has returned since, all the while closely following events in a country he has written and lectured on extensively. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Africa.

a b Lobban, Richard Andrew; Mendy, Peter Michael Karibe (17 October 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6. Rajewski, Brian; Gale Group (November 1998). 244. ISBN 978-0-8103-7692-2. Young, Margaret Walsh; Stetler, Susan . United States.

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