Os lusoafricanos e etnorurais disputam o poder na Guiné-Bissau

Abstract

In this communication we will try to show as the complexity of the ethnic composition and the lack of a due attention to this complexity became the central causes of the difficulty of the process of the construction of the nation and of the frequent political instability of Guinea-Bissau. This phenomenon persists and permeates the colonial (up to 1974) and post-colonial periods, period of the single-party (PAIGC – African Party for Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde [1974 1994]) and still in the period of the multi-partidarism. After the multiparty elections in the European East and of the wind of the changes have reached the African
continent, the party in the power approved a new diploma legislative that instituted the multipartidarism in the country since 1991 and marked the first multi-party general elections for 1994. The relationship among the Portuguese-African elite (Creole) and the ethnic-rural (rural ethnics) has been complex and of difficult apprehension. We will center our attention in
the analysis and description of the main political tensions appeared between the Portuguese-African elites and the rural ethnic leaderships, here understood as facing of the Creole elite, urbanized and learned, with the spiritual and political leadership traditional of the ethnics that still live in the tabancas (villages).