Title: Guinea Bissau,una rivoluzione africana
Photographer(s): Uliano Lucas
Writer(s): Bruno Crimi
Designer(s): Uliano Lucas, Walter Telleri
Publisher(s): Vangelista Editore, Milano, Italy
Year: 1970
Print run:
Language(s): Italian, French
Pages: 200
Size: 14,5 x 21 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Ubezzi & Dones, Milano, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Guinea Bissau, 1969 -1970
ISBN:
Two Italian journalists, a specialist in African issues and a well-known photographer, spent three months in the liberated areas of Guinea Bissau, which now comprise two thirds of the country. They traveled with the guerrillas, talked to teachers, doctors, women and young people who have rebuilt villages in the forest that had been napalmed by the Portuguese, building a new social order together. The reportage ends with an interview with the leader Amilcar Cabral. Portugal had given Guinea the law on forced labour, 99.7% illiteracy: the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) gave it - along with progressive liberation - the primer, the first ever in the Creole language, and also the first book published by this party that has been leading the fight for independence and a people's democracy since 1963.