The nation at stake: sport and colonial war in Portuguese Guinea (1961-1974).

Abstract

This article aims to discuss the tensions surrounding the sporting experience in Portuguese Guinea between 1961, the beginning of the colonial war in Angola, and 1974, year of recognition of the independence of Guinea. It is suggested that the study allows to cast a glance on anticolonial war as well as the end of the Portuguese empire experience. To reach the goal they were mainly used periodicals published during the period in question, three of them published by government agencies – o Boletim Geral do Ultramar, o Boletim Cultural da Guiné Portuguesa e o Notícias da Guiné, and other produced by the Catholic Church, o Arauto, that also received government subsidies.

Keywords

• História da África. História do Esporte. Colonialismo. Guiné. Guerra Colonial.