Vasco Cabral

Vasco Cabral
Second Vice President of Guinea-Bissau
In office 21 June 1989 – December 1991
President	João Bernardo Vieira
Preceded by	Iafai Camará
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	António Vasco da Costa Rebelo Cabral 1926 Farim, Portuguese Guinea
Died	24 August 2005
Political party	PAIGC

Vasco Cabral (1926–2005) was a Bissau-Guinean writer and politician.

He was minister of economy and finance and planning from 1974 to 1982. He was also minister of justice, and Second Vice President of Guinea-Bissau from 21 June 1989 to December 1991.

Cabral was born in Farim, northern part of the country. He studied at the Technical University of Lisbon and was imprisoned in 1953 for opposing António de Oliveira Salazar's regime. He was one of the founders of PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde). He published a book of poems in 1981, and was the founder and first president of national union of artists and writers of Guinea Bissau. He was married to Barbara Matos. He died in Bissau.

Works

• A luta é a minha primavera, 1981 (poetry)

Bibliography

• Alonso Romo, Eduardo J., Literatura africana de lengua portuguesa (in Spanish), Revista Espéculo n.º 40, 2008, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.