Francisca Pereira

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Francisca Lucas Pereira Gomes , or Francisca Pereira for short (* 1942 in Bolama , Portuguese Guinea ) is a Guinea-Bissau nurse , resistance fighter and politician ( PAIGC ).

Life

Pereira was born in 1942 in the former capital of the Portuguese colony Portuguese Guinea, Bolama . As a teenager, she joined the Guinea-Bissau resistance and independence movement PAIGC in 1959/60. She first worked in the secretariat and the school of the PAIGC in Conakry , later she was sent to the USSR in 1965 to receive training as a nurse. From 1967 she was deputy head of the Escola Piloto in Conakry, a training center of the party for Guinea-Bissau orphans and war refugees.

Shortly afterwards, the PAIGC from Guinea sent her directly to the contested colony, where she worked as a nurse in the southern areas already occupied by the PAIGC. In 1970 she was transferred and sent further north. There she also worked as a nurse in the PAIGC hospital in Ziguinchor (Senegal). Between 1970 and 1975 Francisca Pereira also represented the women's wing of the PAIGC at numerous conferences.

Since the independence of Guinea-Bissau, Pereira has held various offices in the Guinea-Bissau state. Among other things, she was mayor of her native Bolama and chairwoman of the women's union of the PAIGC ( União Democrática das Mulheres da Guiné-Bissau ). After the democratization of Guinea-Bissau and a move towards a multi-party system, Pereira took on various offices in the 1990s: from 1990 to 1994 she was Minister for Women's Affairs, from 1994 to 1997 first deputy president of the National People's Assembly and from 1997 to 1999 interior minister.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aliou Ly: Promise and betrayal: Women fighters and national liberation in Guinea Bissau . In: Feminist Africa . No. 19 , 2014, pp. 24 ff . ( available online [PDF]). available online ( memento of the original dated August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / agi.ac.za
  2. ↑ a b c Pereira Gomes, Francisca . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. The Scarecrow Press, Lanham, Maryland, ISBN 978-0-8108-5310-2 , pp. 333 f . (English).
  3. ↑ Guinée Bissau: Francisca Pereira, la "maman du PAIGC". Radio France International, May 23, 2014, accessed October 1, 2016 (French).

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personal data
SURNAME Pereira, Francisca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomes, Francisca Lucas Pereira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Guinea-Bissau nurse, resistance fighter and politician (PAIGC)
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Bolama , Portuguese Guinea