Collaboration, Survival, and Flight
Fulbe Narratives of Guinea-Bissau's War for Independence, 1961–74
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8981239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Newman Glovsky (0000-0001-5203-6898, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 214-230 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853722000305 |
| OpenAlex | W4285083871 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Bissau-Guineans fought a bloody war for independence. Typical narratives of the war emphasize the ethnic dimension of the liberation struggle, with Balanta freedom fighters opposing Portuguese-allied Fulbe. This dominant narrative is open to question, as it ignores the war as a ‘social condition’, and the role that local circumstances played in determining collaboration with the Portuguese, fighting in liberation militaries, or fleeing to neighboring states for personal safety. Oral and archival evidence suggests a more nuanced perspective that blurs the binary nature of this dominant narrative along ethnic fault lines, viewed as either resistance or collaboration. The argument presented in this article allows us to move past defining the war along ethnic or regional lines, and instead urges a view of the conflict as a complex, fractured experience for all Bissau-Guineans, shaped by the particularities of local circumstances
Argument (complex analysis · Art · Ethnic group · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Portuguese · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · African history and culture studies · Anthropology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Gender Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |