Paper short abstract:

This study aims to analyze the vision of Goan nationalists regarding the Colonial War in Angola, through the articles published in the press in exile in 1961, using as an example the newspaper Free Goa.

Paper long abstract:

Following the events of Luanda on February 4th, and Northern Angola on March 15th of 1961, and after the attempt of a military coup led by the Minister of National Defense, Botelho Moniz, Salazar on assuming, temporarily, the Defense portfolio determines as political orientation: "For Angola, quickly and in force".

With the press limited to what could be "legally" written, if the colonial press provided the circulation of ideas among the different colonial territories, allowing to link spaces and populations, the colonial press in exile made it possible to build democratic thinking by establishing relations that the Portuguese dictatorial regime repressed. Having gathered the liberation movements of the colonies at the Casablanca Conference, held from 18th to 20th April of 1961, with the purpose of coordinating the struggle of their peoples against the Portuguese colonial regime through the recently created Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies (CONCP), we will go through the press in exile the articles published about Angola in 1961, taking as an example the Free Goa newspaper, with the aim of making known the vision of the Goan nationalists regarding the Colonial War in Angola and their action in the unity among the nationalist organizations against Portuguese colonialism, in the context of African solidarity.