 In 1974, he joined the first groups of students who, at National Lyceum Kwame N'Krumah, under the teaching of names like Atchutchi Ferreira and Helder Proença, studied without the tutelage of the colonial regime.It was at the high school that, in 1979, the staff of the African Youth Amílcar Cabral (JAAC), a young wing of the PAIGC.With the completion of high school education, he is selected as a militant teacher, which he takes on for the evening course, while, during the day, he teaches mathematics at the then Professional Technical Training Center and at the School of Health Technicians (Nursing) .