Guinea-Bissauan

English Etymology From en Guinea-Bissau an. Adjective ? 1 Of or from Guinea-Bissau. en Jamie Stokes Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East Facts On File, Inc., Infobase Publishing 2009 270 978-0-8160-7158-6 Copious amounts of palm oil, tomatoes, chili, fish, and goat’s meat are considered traditional staples in Guinea-Bissauan cooking. en Philip J. Havik Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth Eric Morier-Genoud Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique Leiden, S.H.; Boston, Mass. Brill 2012 52 978-90-04-22261-8 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. en Lamonte Aidoo; Daniel F. Silva Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies Anthem Press 2021 22 978-1-78527-619-4 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. Synonyms en Bissau-Guinean Translations of or from Guinea-Bissau Bissau-Guinean Noun 1 A person from Guinea-Bissau or of Guinea-Bissaun descent. en Jim Hudgens; Richard Trillo West Africa: The Rough Guide w:Rough Guides 1990 531 0-7471-0087-X 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. en w:Paul Theroux The Lawyer’s Story News: Scoops, Lies, and Videotape . . . Inside the Media Businesswith Phillip Knightley, Zoë Heller, Gordon Burn and Fintan O’Toole. And a New Story by Paul Theroux w:Granta 1996 237 https://archive.org/details/granta5300jack/page/237/mode/1up 0-14-014133-2 Hoyt said, ‘When you look at me, I don’t want you to see a Guinea-Bissauan. My passport is a detail. It helped me through a personal crisis. Do me the courtesy of seeing me as I really am, a colleague and a fellow human being.’ en Nigel Rapport Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic w:Routledge 2018 978-1-138-23065-1 In other words, the cocaine trade may be seen to provide a possibility for migration when in Bissau, just as selling cocaine may provide one of the few ways that Guinea-Bissauans can gain an income once they arrive in Europe, yet in doing so it makes both migration from Bissau and life in Europe increasingly difficult, as Guinea-Bissauans are increasingly policed and met with suspicion. Synonyms en Bissau-Guinean Translations person from Guinea-Bissau or of Guinea-Bissaun descent Bissau-Guinean References en Guinea-Bissau Nationalities