This paper aims to understand the impact of colonialism and Eurocentrism on education in Guinea-Bissau up until the present day. It provides an overview of the history of education from the pre-European colonization period, the period of colonization and independence, and the educational opportunities and needs of the present day. Its focus, therefore, is on the educational model, seeking to understand the violent perspectives of the imposition of colonial educational models. It also provides an analysis of the educational model that was also implemented in the fight against colonialism in the areas liberated by the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), before finally turning to the opportunities that education now offers for the local, regional and national development of Guinea-Bissau, arising from decolonial assumptions. Finally, it is understood that the colonial and post-independence educational models, despite their differences, did not represent a process of mental decolonization. The decolonization that we refer to here is not limited to non-acceptance of colonizer’s way of thinking, but rather, to the taking of a new direction, based on the local to the global reality, inverting the Eurocentric perspective.