even in Lisbon, there can be manifestations of this abominable phenomenon. Do not be astonished nor lose your head, if you note among your future colleagues a certain attitude of reserve in relation to you.” Alluding to the possible racial bias of his teachers in Portugal, Juvenal advised his son to always remember that “you must show knowledge more profound than any candidate of Portuguese descent,” because, “taking into account your origin, your knowledge will be evaluated with greater rigor.”6 Already a brilliant elementary and high school student, Amílcar would have no problem heeding his father’s advice.
Cabral’s colleague and girlfriend, Maria Helena Rodrigues, a native of Chaves in northern Portugal, recalled the cold reception he received when she took him home to meet her family. “The adults in the village would not talk to him, only behind his back.” But Cabral remained unruffled when the children of the village, who had never seen a black person, ran after him “to see and touch him,” a spectacle which he accommodated by “letting them touch his head” and using the occasion as a teaching moment. “He explained to them where he came from, what Africa was and who the Africans were. He explained to them that despite colour differences all men were equal.”7
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