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Amilcar Cabral - The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist (Hardcover)
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Amilcar Cabral - The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist (Hardcover)
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On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the
PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and
Cape Verde. The insurgents were Bissau- Guineans, aiming to get rid
of the Cape Verdeans who dominated the party elite. Despite
Cabral's assassination, Portuguese Guinea became the independent
Republic of Guinea- Bissau. The guerrilla war that Cabral had
started and led precipitated a chain of events that would lead to
the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, toppling the
forty-year-old authoritarian regime. This paved the way for the
rest of Portugal's African colonies to achieve independence.
Written by a native of Angola, this biography narrates Cabral's
revolutionary trajectory, from his early life in Portuguese Guinea
to his death at the hands of his own men. It details his quest for
national sovereignty, beleaguered by the ethnic-based identity
conflicts the national liberation movement struggled to overcome.
Through the life of Cabral, Antonio Tomas critically reflects on
existing ways of thinking and writing about the independence of
Lusophone Africa.
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