AMILCAR CABRAL,

OUR MEMORIAL

I

Cabral

dreamed,

fought

and fell

for independence

Total of your land(s),

Guinea and Cape Verde.

II

Like Cabral,

Many other compatriots of ours

were guided

Oriented

and guided

For that big dream.

III

At the time

From the great crisis,

The feeling

.general

of catharsis,

From our late Amílcar Cabral,

To the one who gave us freedom,

democracy

and personality

Legal as a nation.

IV

40 years later

of independence,

Dear comrades and compatriots,

What do we actually have today?

Freedom, democracy, justice, progress, development?

.V

I'm amorphous,

I am inert!

I have no soul

As Bolama's son,

As a citizen,

as a child of a nation

Conquered at the mercy of sacrifice and blood

of your best children,

as a citizen

With its own identity,

Because the country disintegrated,

regressed,

Not to say, collapsed

.(Dear brothers, note well, this does not mean that it is pessimistic /, alarmist /, but realistic / in the face of / an evident case /)

SAW

.we are, I mean, Guinea-Bissau is “a republic on paper”, as the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rui Patrício, said in 1973, on an official visit to London. An “act of propaganda”, referring to the proclamation of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, on 24 September in the hills of Boé.

.does this “propaganda” continue to this day? Was it a mere episode and today, a repudiation? We are nothing? Are we not or were we legally independent as a nation, with a state of our own? An independence for “the English to see”? A failed state?

No, no, no comrades! .the state, we are all good children of Guinea-Bissau! My mouth is always “watering” when I hear about Guinea-Bissau! I remember good typical dishes from Guinea, mancarra broth, chabéu and many other delicious seafood dishes!

.the winds of independence did not carry us as far as other independent nations and we remained stagnant, stuck in time and space with the successive governments of those “juguedés” and “santchos”(1) of political power, with those illiterate finance officials who became got rich..illicitly, with those political leaders who publicly stated that the Irans” swallowed the money that was in the State's coffers.

.oh! My Guinea! Guinea “n,dessan”(dessan)(2), will you continue to be always and eternally “n,dessan” among the states of the world, voting its people and its people into misery, ignorance, poverty, and underdevelopment?

SAW

"Mouth watering"

For my Guinea,

Land of every baby,

From each baby,

rich

.and what a shock

Who is the son of good people,

How do you feel,

that has a soul,

when constantly

spills out

Blood

From brothers, like Tagma,

Nino Vieira,

Veríssimo Seabra,

Ansumane Mané,

Paulo Correia,

Viriato Pam,

Hélder Proença,

Baciro Dabo

And so many others.

VII

And the memory is still alive

.of all arbitrariness

Perpetrated by the P.A.I.G. Ç.

Especially with illustrious and sublime people,

Like Joaquim Baticã Ferreira!

VIII

.As a being, whose blood is not cheap, I wish, however, that Guinea had a good path, towards peace, solidarity, brotherhood, peaceful coexistence, harmony among all Guineans.

IX

I'm like you,

Or like those who don't have the voice

Along with political bodies and institutions,

.but mine and your word

hear yourself

and reads

for each letter

And syllable someone spells

In silence,

Or out loud,

Without any fear.

X

like independence

Did not fertilize conscience

And the memory

of my comrades,

In all

the stops,

When at the time, everyone shouted:

Live independence,

.live the freedom,

Down with colonialism,

imperialism

And the Salazar dictatorship!

1-Vultures and monkeys

2 – Poor thing (n,dessan, in olofe)

(Unfinished)

PV CITY (Tuesday- 08:20AM), SEPTEMBER 24, 2013.

KANKAMBAL (NDO).