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Vasco Cabral

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Vasco Cabral
Second Vice President of Guinea-Bissau
In office
21 June 1989 – December 1991
PresidentJoão Bernardo Vieira
Preceded byIafai Camará
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Personal details
Born
António Vasco da Costa Rebelo Cabral

1926
Farim, Portuguese Guinea
Died24 August 2005
Political partyPAIGC

Vasco Cabral (1926–2005) was a Bissau-Guinean writer and politician.[1]

He was minister of economy and finance and planning from 1974 to 1982.[2] He was also minister of justice, and Second Vice President of Guinea-Bissau from 21 June 1989 to December 1991.

Cabral was born in Farim, northern part of the country.[2] He studied at the Technical University of Lisbon and was imprisoned in 1953 for opposing António de Oliveira Salazar's regime. He was one of the founders of PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He published a book of poems in 1981, and was the founder and first president of national union of artists and writers of Guinea Bissau.[2] He was married to Barbara Matos. He died in Bissau.

Works

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  • A luta é a minha primavera, 1981 (poetry)

Bibliography

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Notes

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  1. ^ Infopedia (in Portuguese).
  2. ^ a b c Mendy, Peter Karibe; Lobban, Richard A. Jr. (17 October 2013). Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810880276 – via Google Books.