No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the
history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in
Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Though perhaps less well known than the
struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the
African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)
easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African
independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds. Basil
Davidson, a leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many
of these events first hand, draws on his own extensive experience in
the country as well as the PAIGC archives to provide a detailed and
rigorous analysis of the conflict. The book also provides one of the
earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC's founder, Amilcar
Cabral, and documents the movement's remarkable success in recovering
from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence.
Featuring a preface by Cape Verde's first president, Aristides
Pereira, and a foreword by Cabral himself, No Fist is Big Enough to
Hide the Sky remains an invaluable resource for the study both of the
region and of African liberation struggles as a whole.
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ISBN
9781783605620
Publisert
2019
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Zed Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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