Sandra Inês Cruz - Tarrafal 1975

This book documents the final phase of Tarrafal's operation as a place of deprivation of liberty.

Silenced by historiography and memory preservation initiatives, the camp, reopened at the end of December 1974, once again imprisoned dozens of men for political reasons. Who were they and why were they imprisoned in Tarrafal when the 25th of April was shouting freedom from Lisbon?

Here, the prisoners of the end are identified and presented. Those who did not want Cape Verde and Guinea to be one country, those who preferred to leave the decision about the archipelago's future to the people, and others who, while not speaking out against anything, also did not show themselves to be in favor of anything. Uncomfortable voices, thoughts misaligned with the independence ideology of the PAIGC supported by Portugal, spent months locked up without accusation, without trial, without knowing how to achieve the freedom of April. It is this camp, closed only in July 1975, that remains to be told.