Commons:Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection)

African Studies Centre Leiden
	Native name	Stichting Afrika-Studiecentrum
	Parent institution	Leiden University
	Location	Leiden
	Coordinates	52° 10′ 11″ N, 4° 28′ 37″ E
	Established	1947
	Authority file	: Q2174585 VIAF: 140319352 ISNI: 0000000406257640 LCCN: n79032089 NKC: ko2010614914 CiNii: DA06086122 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q2174585

In 2016 professor Roel Coutinho (on Dutch wikipedia) MD donated 752 photographs and slides made by him in the course of his medical work in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal in 1973 and 1974, during the final year of the war of independence waged by the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) resistance movement against Portugal. The digital images are located in Category:Guinea-Bissau and Senegal 1973-1974 (Coutinho Collection). The physical collection is part of the Library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden (the Netherlands).

The donation includes images of daily life, dance and parties, hospitals, further medical interest, PAIGC soldiers and weapons, open air people's shops and schools, and pictures of the later first President (Luís Cabral) and later first Prime Minister (Francisco Mendes) of Guinea-Bissau. The metadata for this collection were collected and organised including captions in Portugese by Michele Portatadino, MA African Studies, Leiden University. The photographs were digitized by GMS Digitaliseert in Alblasserdam. Harro Westra did the technological set-up. Hans Muller finalised the upload to Wikimedia Commons using the GLAMwiki Toolset. The project was initiated by Jos Damen and sponsored by the African Studies Centre, Leiden University.

All photographs can be found here.

Usage of the images

Within Wikimedia websites

• Usage of these images on Wikimedia projects, main namespace (articles) only.

Elsewhere

For instance,

• The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74. Studies on National liberation no. 1. (PDF). Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Retrieved on 23 March 2023., and
• Alyosha Goldstein (2021). Introduction. Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, vol. 7 (2021). manifold.umn.edu. University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved on 23 March 2023.

Literature

• Roel Coutinho, Jos Damen (foreword): De vrijheidsstrijd van Guinee-Bissau door de ogen van een jonge dokter, Roel Countinho (translated title: The struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau, seen through the eyes of a young doctor, Roel Coutinho), Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (African Studies Centre Leiden), 2022. 81 pages. ISSN: 1876-018x, ISBN 978-90-5448-195-9. In Dutch. Online version, open access

Photographic examples

Daily life

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  Canoeing across the river, Canjambari, Guinea-Bissau
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  A captured monkey near the Senegalese border, near Canjambari
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  A boy with a woman, Campada, Guinea-Bissau
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  A woman is cultivating the field with a hoe, Guinea-Bissau
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  Amilcar Cabral’s daughter, Guinea-Bissau

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  A girl is pounding rice, Guinea-Bissau
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  A man is mending the tyres of a bicycle donated by Norway, Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  An imam takes care of a leper, Sara
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  Schoolchildren on the northern front, Hermangono, Guinea-Bissau
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  A smiling child, a woman and a man, Hermangono

Dance and parties

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  A ceremonial dance in Sui, Senegal
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  A ceremonial dance in Sui
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  A party, Canjambari, Guinea-Bissau
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  A dancing woman, Canjambari
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  Dancing soldiers, Canjambari
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  A wedding cake at Francisco Mendes' wedding (the later prime minister of Guinea-Bissau) with Luís Cabral, Ziguinchor, Senegal

Hospitals

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  A nurse in Ziguinchor hospital, Senegal, 1973
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  Ziguinchor hospital, 1973
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  Cleaning, Ziguinchor hospital
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  A PAIGC nurse, Ziguinchor
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  The Ziguinchor hospital ambulance
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  An open air infirmary, Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  An open air “Infirmary Pharmacy”, Sara

Medical images

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  A Cuban doctor checks the thumbnail, Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  A Cuban nurse is checking blood pressure, Sara
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  Doctor Antonio is performing a heart checkup with a stethoscope, Sara
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  Surgery, Sara
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  Surgery, Sara

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  Local anesthesia, Sara
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  Palpation inside the wound, Sara
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  Suturing the wound, Sara
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  A child with burn wounds, Sara
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  A leg wound, Canjambari, Guinea-Bissau

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  A foot disorder, Ziguinchor hospital, Senegal
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  Cholera vaccinations by Guinean nurse, Ziguinchor, Senegal
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  A child with umbilical hernia near Senegalese border
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  An armed escort is carrying the wounded to the Senegalese border

PAIGC soldiers and weapons

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  A soldier with a rocket-propelled grenade, Manten, Guinea-Bissau
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  A female soldier is playing cards, Guinea-Bissau
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  Soldiers are drinking tea, Guinea-Bissau
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  The family of a soldier, Guinea-Bissau
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  Guerillas at school, Guinea-Bissau

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  Military commanders on the northern frontline, Guinea-Bissau
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  A photograph of a downed Portuguese plane, Guinea-Bissau
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  An unexploded bomb, Canjambari, Guinea-Bissau
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  A village burnt down by the Portuguese, near Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  Instruction drawings showing PAIGC soldiers, Farim, Guinea-Bissau

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  Soldiers are learning how to shoot, Ziguinchor, Senegal
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  The morning roll-call, Hermangono, Guinea-Bissau
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  Carrying weapons to Hermangono
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  Kalashnikovs for Hermangono

People's shops

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  A people's shop in Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  A people's shop, Sara
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  Pouring flour, Sara
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  A people's shop, Sara
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  Weighing rice, Sara

Schools

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  Campada college on the northern frontline, Guinea-Bissau
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  Campada college
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  A student is using a microscope, Campada
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  A primary school, Sara, Guinea-Bissau
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  A boy is doing math at a blackboard, Sara

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  A school in the liberated areas, Guinea-Bissau
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  A school in the liberated areas
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  A school in the liberated areas
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  A roster for a school in the liberated areas?
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  A teacher with his pupils in the liberated areas

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  The official opening of a PAIGC secondary school, Ziguinchor, Senegal
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  The official opening of a PAIGC secondary school, Ziguinchor
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  PAIGC Schools for adults, Guinea-Bissau
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  PAIGC Schools for adults, Guinea-Bissau

Later President Luís Cabral and Prime Minister Francisco Mendes of Guinea-Bissau

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  Luís Cabral
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  The wedding party of Francisco Mendes
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  Francisco Mendes
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  The wedding party of Francisco Mendes