Bissagos Islands

And there was different ways that women were decision makers in the traditional society.

structure of governance that a lot of these groups had, whether it was Belanta, Fulani, or Bijagos.

When we talk about the Guinea-Bissau women fighting the patriarchy within their own cultures, their own indigenous cultures, it definitely varies depending on where we are in the country or who we're talking about.

So those were the two colonialisms.

Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, they are located on the west coast of Africa.

Cape Verde is an archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, and Guinea-Bissau is located in the continent, and then there are some highlands like the Bijagos Islands, also in the Atlantic Ocean.

I don't know how much, how far they are away from each other, but throughout history, at least from Portuguese colonization from the 16th century, Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau was under the same administration as Cape Verde until 19...

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