Unity and Struggle

Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this compilation of his most influential speeches and writings.

About the author

Amílcar Cabral was born in 1924 in Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. He was an agricultural engineer, anticolonial theorist, and an inspiration to revolutionary socialists and national independence movements worldwide.

Cabral helped to found and lead the anticolonial guerrilla movement during the Guinea-Bissau war of independence and, in 1956, launched the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde which garnered overwhelming power and influence before their eventual triumph over the Portuguese colonialists.

Although integral to its success, Amílcar Cabral would never live to see an independent Guinea-Bissau. In 1973, Cabral was assassinated months before the independence forces were declared victorious.
Michael Wolfers was a writer and political activist born in 1938. After graduating in the early 1960s from Wadham College, Oxford, he was appointed as an Africa correspondent for The Times and later worked as a consultant to the new Marxist government in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

Summary

Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this compilation of his most influential speeches and writings.

Foreword

One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this vivid compilation of his most influential speeches and writings.

Additional text

Amílcar Cabral's name will always be among those that youth can hurl in defiance at the old world

Product details

• Authors: Amilcar Cabral, Amílcar Cabral
• Assisted by: Basil Davidson (Introduction), Davidson Basil (Introduction), Michael Wolfers (Translation), Wolfers Michael (Translation)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2023
• EAN: 9781803288994
• ISBN: 978-1-80328-899-4
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Angola, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / African, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Colonialism & imperialism, Revolutionary groups & movements, Colonialism and imperialism, African History, Non Fiction, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Revolutionary groups and movements, Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Sao Tome and Principe