How can a people overthrow 500 years of colonial oppression? What can
be done to decolonize mentalities, economic structures, and political
institutions? In this book, which includes the first translation of
the text ‘Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance’ as well as ‘The
Role of Culture in the Struggle for Independence,’ the African
revolutionary Amílcar Cabral explores these and other questions.
These texts demonstrate his frank and insightful directives to his
comrades in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde’s party for independence,
as well as reflections on culture and combat written the year prior to
his assassination by the Portuguese secret police. As one of the most
important and profound African revolutionary leaders in the 20th
century, and justly compared in importance to Frantz Fanon, Cabral’s
thoughts and instructions as articulated here help us to rethink
important issues concerning nationalism, culture, vanguardism,
revolution, liberation, colonialism, race, and history. The volume
also includes two introductory essays: the first introduces Cabral’s
work within the context of Africana critical theory, and the second
situates these texts in the context their historical-political context
and analyzes their relevance for contemporary anti-imperialism.
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ISBN
9781783483761
Publisert
2016
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Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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