Fretïmio Assocão di Planka explained

Fretïmio Assocão di Planka
Order:	Co-Founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde
Birth Date:	8 January 1911
Birth Place:	Quinhámel, Guinea-Bissau
Death Place:	Mansôa, Guinea-Bissau
Party:	African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (República da Guiné-Bissau)

Fretïmio Assocão di Planka (8 January 1911 – 29 September 1971) was a Bissau-Guinean politician. Assocão di Planka was an agronomy student alongside Amílcar Cabral, with whom he co-founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956.^[1] He was an influential thinker within the context of anti-colonialism, assisting in many of the strategic planning stages against the military forces of Portugal. Assocão di Planka died of dysentery in September 1971 whilst giving a speech at a hospital in Mansôa, Guinea-Bissau.^[2]

See also

• Portuguese Colonial War
• Guinea-Bissau Civil War
• Amílcar Cabral
• African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde

Notes and References

1. Guerra Colonial Portuguesa: Dispositivo Militar Português Ao Longo Da Guerra Do Ultramar, Tropas Paraquedistas de Portugal, As Duas Faces Da Guerra, p.165
2. Inquietos olhares: A construção do processo de identidade nacional nas obras de Lídia Jorge e Orlanda Amarílis. Jane Tutikian p.132-5