Guinea-Bissauan

English

Etymology

From Guinea-Bissau +‎ -an.

Adjective

Guinea-Bissauan

1. Of or from Guinea-Bissau.
   • 2009, Jamie Stokes, editor, Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East, Facts On File, Inc., Infobase Publishing, →ISBN, page 270:

     Copious amounts of palm oil, tomatoes, chili, fish, and goat’s meat are considered traditional staples in Guinea-Bissauan cooking.

   • 2012, Philip J. Havik, “Virtual Nations and Failed States: Making Sense of the Labyrinth”, in Eric Morier-Genoud, editor, Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, Leiden, S.H., Boston, Mass.: Brill, →ISBN, page 52:

     These events and the silences and taboos surrounding them helped create the conditions for the longevity of the ‘linha de Cabral’ or ‘Cabral’s programme’ as a key reference of the erstwhile liberation movement and Guinea-Bissauan politics in general until the late 1990s.

   • 2021, Lamonte Aidoo, Daniel F. Silva, editors, Lusophone African Short Stories and Poetry after Independence: Decolonial Destinies, Anthem Press, →ISBN, page 22:

     Cabral and Pereira looked to unify both nations until Cabral’s prime minister, the former commander of the Guinea-Bissauan armed forces, João Bernardo Vieira, led a military coup against Cabral in 1980 on the grounds that Cabral’s Cape Verdean origins (like his brother, Amílcar, he was born in Bissau to Cape Verdean mixed-race parents) compromised his dedication to the Guinea-Bissauan people.

Synonyms

• Bissau-Guinean

Translations

of or from Guinea-Bissau — see Bissau-Guinean

Noun

Guinea-Bissauan (plural Guinea-Bissauans)

1. A person from Guinea-Bissau or of Guinea-Bissaun descent.
   • 1990, Jim Hudgens, Richard Trillo, West Africa: The Rough Guide, Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 531:

     A noticeable proportion of Guinea-Bissauans are mixed race Crioulo-speakers; mostly Cape Verdean, but also descendants of the small number of settlers and traders who came direct from Portugal.

   • 1996, Paul Theroux, “The Lawyer’s Story”, in News: Scoops, Lies, and Videotape . . . Inside the Media Business […], Granta, →ISBN, page 237:

     Hoyt said, ‘When you look at me, I don’t want you to see a Guinea-Bissauan. My passport is a detail. It helped me through a personal crisis. Do me the courtesy of seeing me as I really am, a colleague and a fellow human being.’

   • 2018, Nigel Rapport, editor, Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic, Routledge, →ISBN:

     In other words, the cocaine trade may be seen to provide a possibility for migration when in Bissau, just as selling cocaine may provide one of the few ways that Guinea-Bissauans can gain an income once they arrive in Europe, yet in doing so it makes both migration from Bissau and life in Europe increasingly difficult, as Guinea-Bissauans are increasingly policed and met with suspicion.

Synonyms

• Bissau-Guinean

Translations

person from Guinea-Bissau or of Guinea-Bissaun descent — see Bissau-Guinean

References

• “Guinea-Bissauan”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.