Guinea-bissauan

Copious amounts of palm oil, tomatoes, chili, fish, and goat’s meat are considered traditional staples in Guinea-Bissauan cooking.

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These events and the silences and taboos surrounding them helped create the conditions for the longevity of the ‘linha de Cabral’ or ‘Cabral’s programme’ as a key reference of the erstwhile liberation movement and Guinea-Bissauan politics in general until the late 1990s.

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Cabral and Pereira looked to unify both nations until Cabral’s prime minister, the former commander of the Guinea-Bissauan armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, led a military coup against Cabral in 1980 on the grounds that Cabral’s Cape Verdean origins (like his brother, Amílcar, he was born in Bissau to Cape Verdean mixed-race parents) compromised his dedication to the Guinea-Bissauan people.

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A noticeable proportion of Guinea-Bissauans are mixed race Crioulo-speakers; mostly Cape Verdean, but also descendants of the small number of settlers and traders who came direct from Portugal.

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