 Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mumakore ekuma1950, murwi weBissau-Guinean Amílcar Cabral akatanga kurwisa Estado Novo, achitsigira kuzvimiririra kwemakoroni ePortugal eAfrica. Akasimbisa African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde PAIGC kuti ibatanidze kurwisana, kunyange zvazvo akasimbisa kuti bato iri harisi hurongwa hwehutungamiri, asi panzvimbo pezvo rakarongeka pamwe chete nemitemo inopesana ne-elitist uye inopesana ne-bureaucratic, inopesana ne avant-gardeism. Simba panzvimbo pezvo raiva mumakomiti emisha anozvitonga, ayo akasarudzwa uye aigona kudzoswa, panzvimbo pevakuru vebato, sezvakanga zvataurwa naCabral kuti hatidi kushandiswa munyika dzedu, kunyange nevanhu vatema. Muna 1963, kurwira rusununguko kwakachinja kuva Hondo yeRusununguko yeGuinea-Bissau, umo maRevolutionary Armed Forces of the People FARP akatungamira hondo yemauto ehondo yekurwisa zviremera zvePortugal. Iyo FARP pachayo yaive yakaumbwa nevazvipiri vasingabhadharwe uye yakanga isina kurongeka, pachinzvimbo chekudzora kutonga zvakanyanya sezvinobvira. Aya mafungiro ekuda kutonga nyika akaita kuti Stephen P. Halbrook afunge kuti Cabral ndiye mumwe wevanhu vane rusununguko rwakawanda vemazuva ano, kunyange zvazvo izvi zvisingabvumirwi nemutemo wezvematongerwo enyika. 