The story of Guinea-Bissau: the nation that never surrendered!

The history of Guinea-Bissau begins with the arrival of the Portuguese in the region in the fifteenth century, when Portuguese navigators began to explore the coast of West Africa. Initially, the territory was used as a point of trade and supply for the Portuguese ships that ran through the routes between Europe, Africa and the Americas. The formal colonization of Guinea-Bissau by the Portuguese began in the nineteenth century, after the 1815 Paris Treaty, when the country became part of Portuguese possessions in Africa. During the colonial period, Guinea-Bissau was mainly used for the exploitation of the slave trade. Local populations were subjected to brutal working conditions in sugar and tobacco plantations, as well as being forced to act as labor in mines and other colonial enterprises. Guinea-Bissau was one of the last colonies to be formally organized and, in 1886, the city of Bissau was chosen as the capital of the colony, reinforcing the Portuguese presence in the region. From the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the country became more economically exploited, with the cultivation of products such as peanuts, cocoa and, later, glue nut bark, which ensured a source of income for the Portuguese. However, colonial exploitation was marked by severe repression of local populations, which resisted oppression and forced labor. (Tagstotranslate) Sao Tome and Principe

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