Wartime residential rural landscapes the Guinea-Bissau case during the colonial/liberation war with the Portuguese (1963–1974)

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Figure 1. [Carreira & Frazão, 1959], Missão à Argélia [Report], CEM [Lisbon: 20/03/1959], [cover]. Source: Arquivo Histórico Militar (courtesy: Francesca Vita).

Figure 2. (A–C). [Mário Santos Costa, 1963], Single-Family House for 1–4 inhabitants; 5–6 inhabitants; 7–9 inhabitants (Regedoria de Viana, Type A) Junta Provincial de Povoamento de Angola (1964). A habitação em núcleos de povoamento. (Housing in settlement centres). Luanda: JPPA Edition, Design n. 11.

Figure 3. Associações Económicas de Angola (1970), Congresso de Povoamento e Promoção Social (Congress of Settlement and Social Promotion), Luanda: Associações Económicas de Angola [cover] (courtesy: Beatriz Serrazina).

Figure 4. Conselho Provincial de Contra-Subversão, Normas de Reordenamento Rural e de Reagrupamento de Populações. Gabinete de Estudos e Coordenação. [Luanda], 3 April 1972, [cover]. Source: Arquivo Histórico Militar (courtesy: Major Cunha Roberto).

Figure 5. (A–C) House Type 2—Bissorã Administration, Former Portuguese Guinea (30 October 1969). Source: INEP – Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Guiné-Bissau.

Map 1. Former military resettlements. Survey carried out following the field trips with record of residential structures and facilities. Drawing: author; Beatriz Serrazina, http://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020, 2022 (Guinea-Bissau, 2011–2021).

Figure 6. (A,B) 4 Houses blocks; 6 Houses blocks; 8 Houses blocks. (Appendix 17, 1/4; 2/4; 3/4, Jan. 1971), (Santos, 1966–1969). Source: J. A. L. S. Santos personal archive (courtesy: Francesca Vita). (C) Nhabijões military resettlement, Guinea. [3 May 1971]. Reorganization of the Nhabijões region settlements, planned and led by the Portuguese military and with the approval of the colonial Public Works departments, Guinea-Bissau. Source: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino [IPAD 1971-00770]. (D) House. Nhabijões military resettlement, Guinea, ca. 1970. Source: J. A. L. S. Santos personal archive.

Table 1. Former military resettlements.

MILITARY RESETTLEMENT	Visiting date	Aerial View 1968/1973	Zoning Plans	School	Medical Facility	Chapel	Military Facilities	Existing housing structure	Houses in use	Water Well	Colonial Administration buildings	Other military buildings
NHABIJÕES	7 October 2011			Not visible	Not visible	Not visible	Not visible		Not visible	Not located	Not visible
BINAR	1 March 2019
ENCHEIA	1 March 2019			Not located	Not located	Not located		Not located	Inexistent	Not located
PELUNDO	1 March 2019 + 30 November 2021								Not located	Not located
JOLMETE	03 November 2021					Not located			Demolished	Not located
BATUCAR	03 November 2021					Not located			Not located	Not located
CARENQUE / CANHOBE	03 November 2021					Not located	Not located		Not located	Not located
INGOREZINHO	04 November 2021					Not located
BARRO	04 November 2021					Not located			Not located

Record of existing infrastructure. Survey: author; F. Fiúza; F. Vita, http://doi.org/10.54499/PTDC/ART-DAQ/0592/2020. (Guinea-Bissau, 2011–2021).

Figure 7. (A,B). Namedão resettlement, Former Portuguese Guinea (Administrator António Isidro de Campos Gramazo, 31 October 1969), Fundo de Administraçao de Bissora. Source: INEP – Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Guiné-Bissau. (C,D). Namedão resettlementt Plan, Former Portuguese Guinea (design: Furiel C. Sousa, 28/10/1969), Fundo de Administraçao de Bissora. Source: INEP: Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Guiné-Bissau.

Figure 8. (A) Militar resettlement of Batúcar, Guinea-Bissau. Source: Biblioteca de Arte e Arquivos da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian I03-015-005 [I03-015 (COOP 04640)]. (B) House typology. Portuguese Army Source: INEP – Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa, Guiné-Bissau (courtesy: Francesca Vita).

Figure 9. (A,B). Men on the construction site and women doing laundry and taking care of the children. Everyday life during the construction of Nhabijões military resettlement, Guinea, ca. 1970. Source: J. A. L. S. Santos personal archive. (C) Medical assistance. Nhabijões military resettlement, Guinea. Source: J. A. L. S. Santos personal archive.

Figure 10. (A–C) Ingorezinho, Photo: autor, 2021.

Figure 11. (A,B) Binar military resettlement, Guinea, Plano de Reordenamento de Binar António Moreira Veloso, Urbanism and Housing Services Board of the General-Directorate of Public Works and Communications, Overseas Ministry, 1970. Source: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino [IPAD 858]; Source: Biblioteca de Arte e Arquivos da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian [03-015-015]. (C) Photo: autor, 2019.

Figure 12. (A–C) Empada resettlement, Guinea, Plano de Reordenamento de Empada, António Moreira Veloso, Urbanism and Housing Services Board of the General-Directorate of Public Works and Communications, Overseas Ministry, 1970, Source: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino [IPAD 858].

Figure 13. (A,B). Standard-house for the Province of Guinea-Bissau, António Moreira Veloso, Urbanism and Housing Services Board of the General-Directorate of Public Works and Communications, Overseas Ministry, 1970 [AHU] [students’ model]. Report of the Eventual commission of service of architect António Moreira Veloso in Guinea, from March to May 1970, Lisbon: 30/06/1970. Source: Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino [PT/IPAD/MU/DGOPC/DSUH/1972 00857].

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