Like his half brother Amílcar, he was of mixed Guinean and Cape Verdian blood, and, like Amílcar, a founding member of an unusual party, the PAIGC, which, by uniting the two colonized countries in a single struggle, sought to herald a federation of the two states.
El é o medio-irmán de Amílcar, nado coma el de sangue metade guineano e metade caboverdiano, e coma el, membro fundador dun partido inusual, o PAIGC, que ao xuntar os dous países colonizados nunha única loita desexa ser o predecesor dunha federación dos 2 estados.