Portugal was the first European country to colonise Africa. It was
also the last to leave, almost five centuries later. During the
course of what Lisbon called its civilizing mission in Africa the
Portuguese weathered numerous insurrections, but none as severe as
the guerrilla war first launched in Angola in 1961 and two years
later in Portuguese Guinea. While Angola had a solid economic
infrastructure, that did not hold for the tiny West African enclave
that was to become Guine-Bissau. Both Soviets and Cubans believed
that because that tiny colony- roughly the size of Belgium - had no
resources and a small population, that Lisbon would soon
capitulate. They were wrong, because hostilities lasted more than a
decade and the 11-year struggle turned into the most intense of
Lisbon's three African colonies. It was a classic African guerrilla
campaign that kicked off in January 1963, but nobody noticed
because what was taking place in Vietnam grabbed all the headlines.
The Soviet-led guerrilla campaign in Portuguese Guinea was to go on
and set the scene for the wars that followed in Rhodesia and
present-day Namibia.
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