Fretïmio Assocão di Planka
Co-Founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
Personal details
Born8 January 1911
Quinhámel, Guinea-Bissau
Died29 September 1971(1971-09-29) (aged 60)
Mansôa, Guinea-Bissau
Political partyAfrican Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (República da Guiné-Bissau)

Fretïmio Assocão di Planka (8 January 1911 – 29 September 1971) was a Bissau-Guinean politician. Assocão di Planka was an agronomy student alongside Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.[1] He was an influential thinker within the context of anti-colonialism, assisting in many of the strategic planning stages against the military forces of Portugal. Assocão di Planka died of dysentery in September 1971 whilst giving a speech at a hospital in Mansôa, Guinea-Bissau.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Guerra Colonial Portuguesa: Dispositivo Militar Português Ao Longo Da Guerra Do Ultramar, Tropas Paraquedistas de Portugal, As Duas Faces Da Guerra, p.165
  2. ↑ Inquietos olhares: A construção do processo de identidade nacional nas obras de Lídia Jorge e Orlanda Amarílis. Jane Tutikian p.132-5


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