Amilcar cabral biography of martin
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Revolutionary Cut Short
Amílcar Cabral was one of the most important revolutionaries of the 20th century. Leading the independence war against Portuguese colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, Cabral became a global figure in anticolonialism. Supported by Fidel Castro, he led the most successful war of Portugal’s African colonies against Salazar’s regime, until his assassination in Conakry in January – on the eve of independence.
Cabral’s global significance lay in two directions. First was his excoriating critique of the carcass of European colonialism. The Salazar regime’s propaganda had been so successful that in the s there were even many African nationalists who believed that ‘the Portuguese case was different’ – as Lisbon’s strategists put it – because they had built a multiracial utopia in their African colonies. Cabral soon set about putting the record straight. On his globetrotting tours to raise funds for the war, he exposed the racism, economic cannibali
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Amílcar Cabral And The Politics Of Culture And Identity
We talk a lot about Africa, but we in our Party must remember that before being Africans we are … human beings, who belong to the whole world.
&#; Amilcar Cabral, Unity and Struggle
Drawing in particular on the ideas of the Guinea-Bissau revolutionary, Amilcar Cabral, I discuss how the term ‘African’ became a synonym for the non-human or lesser human being that justified enslavement, slavery, colonialism and exploitation, and how the meaning of the word evolved subsequently to consider the African as ‘uncivilized’ under colonialism, and then ‘underdeveloped’ in the post-independence period. I discuss how the term African was appropriated by those engaged in the struggles against enslavement, slavery, exploitation and colonialism and came to represent the assertion and affirmation by Africans of their humanity, and as human beings, both makers of history and contributors to the history of human emancipation. And in
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The Amilcar Cabral School
Date: 01 August
Author: Guest
Tags: Africa, Internationalism
This article was written by Comrade Walter Ogillo Nyaluogo, Communist Party of Kenya (CPK)
The Mount Tai Edition of his original report fryst vatten being jointly published here, as well as in the latest issue of the Communist Party of Kenya's Itikadi magazine. Their website can be funnen here.
Amilcar Cabral in Algiers, February | Ben Martin/Getty Images
I was extremely fortunate to be invited to the Amilcar Cabral School in Accra, Ghana, from the 19th of May to the 11th of June this year, inom was the first Kenyan to participate in the school, and it was an honor.
The Amilcar Cabral school fryst vatten a political theory school that brings together working class activists from progressive social movements from across the globe. The school aims to connect with individual activists and their organizations, to understand their struggles, broaden their perspectives, and build greater internat