Resistance and Decolonization by Amilcar Cabral

Resistance and Decolonization

Amilcar Cabral, Amílcar Cabral, Daniel A. Wood

Bloomsbury Academic · Paperback · March 30, 2016

How can a people overthrow 500 years of colonial oppression?

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Who it’s for
Cabral examines resistance, culture, and independence in writings on liberation.
Genres
Colonialism & Its Aftermath, West African History, African Studies
Published
Bloomsbury Academic, March 30, 2016

About this book

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.

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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.

Cabral on Resistance

Cabral examines resistance, culture, and independence in writings on liberation.

Come here for

  • Directives to comrades in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde’s independence party
  • Reflections on culture and combat

Expect

  • A first translation of “Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance”
  • Two introductory essays on Africana critical theory and historical-political context

Where it sits

Colonialism & Its Aftermath95%
African Studies29%
West African History29%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Philosophy
Authors
Amilcar Cabral, Amílcar Cabral, Daniel A. Wood
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Published
March 30, 2016
Format
Paperback
Reading lane
Philosophy