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In1960sand70sGuinea-Bissau,militantrebelstookuparmsagainstthecolonialpower.Adocumentaryfablebasedonhistoricalresearch. DuringGuinea-Bissau’sstruggleforindependencefromPortugalinthe1960s,rebelleaderAmílcarCabrallaunchedanambitiouseducationprogrammetofightthePortuguesecolonialpower.In‘MangroveSchool’,FilipaCésarandlocalhistorianandactivistSóniaVazBorgesexplorethehistoryandimpactofthemovement.Inthe1960sand70s,thenomadicguerrillaschoolsunderthemangrovetreesbecamesymbolsofthepeople’santi-colonialstruggle,includingagainstthecolonialmentalityitself.Aschoolsystemsetupbymilitantrebels,whichforthesamereasonbecamethetargetofbombattacksduringthecountry’slongstruggleforindependence.Basedonhistoricalresearch,andatthecrossroadsofartandpoliticaltheory,CésarandBorgesrevisitthehistoryofthemangroveschoolsinadocumentaryfableofresistance,independenceandautonomousformsofeducation.