On April 25, 1974, young captains rose up in Portugal, brought down the Salazarist dictatorship and paved the way for the independence of the last African colonies. But many do not know that it was the African fighters for the independence of their country who exhausted the Portuguese colonial army and provoked the uprising of the “April Captains” in Lisbon. Mario Cissoko was one of them.
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In Guinea-Bissau under Portuguese colonization, Mario Cissoko was the political commissioner of the 3rd army corps of Amilcar Cabral’s PAIGC, then the head of the secret archives of the famous independence movement. The secret meeting between Portuguese general Antonio de Spinola and independence leader Amilcar Cabral? The causes of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral on January 20, 1973 in Conakry? The desires of the Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Guinean Sékou Touré over entire sections of Guinea-Bissau territory? Online from Bissau, Mario Cissoko delivers his testimony.
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