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Aristides Maria Pereira, the son of Porfirio Pereira Tavares and Maria das Neves Crus Silva, was the first President of Cape Verde. He was born on November 17, in Boa Vista, Cape Verde.
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At the time of his birth, Cape Verde, ten islands off the West African coast, was a Portuguese colony situated west of the mainland territory of Portuguese Guinea (today’s Guinea Bissau).
Pereira attended elementary and middle school in Cape Verde.
After secondary school he trained as a radio and telegraph technician. He secured employment with the Portuguese colonial administration and eventually became Chief of Telecommunications in Guinea Bissau. While in Guinea Bissau Pereira became acquainted with Amilcar Cabral an advocate of independence for both Cape Verde and Guinea Bissau.
By Pereira and Cabral were working together to resist Portuguese rule in the colonies by non-violent means.
In Pereira, Cabral and other nationalists founded the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape V