"During the night of 22 November 1970, Portuguese warships entered Guinean territorial waters. It was the start of an attack by hundreds of European and African mercenaries against the capital city, Conakry. The main purpose was to overthrow the government of the People's Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) and President Ahmed Sekou Toure. For days there was fierce fighting in the streets of Conakry and around the city. But the people of Guinea were organized and armed, and the invaders were defeated. Guineans had once again surprised the world with the strength of their determination to be free."
editors, Sekou Toure, Panaf Books (PANAF Great Lives series), page 11 section "The Guinean Revolution"
The defeat of Guinea would have been a body blow to the whole Pan-Africanist movement. But the people of Guinea were properly organized and led and thus defeated this action. It would be beneficial for all of us if today's African Union could find the same type of determination to be free of misguided political and economic policies, as that which guided the Pan-Africanists in this particular circumstance to achieve such historic and courageous work in the face of naked military aggression and insidious subversion.
