Amilcar Cabral (1924–1973)
Teoksen Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral tekijä
Tietoja tekijästä
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Tekijän teokset
P.A.I.G.C. Unidade e Luta 1 kappale
Cabral on Nkrumah 1 kappale
Vår kamp - er kamp 1 kappale
Análise de Alguns Tipos de Resistência 1 kappale
Associated Works
Merkitty avainsanalla
Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Cabral, Amilcar Lopes
- Syntymäaika
- 1924-09-12
- Kuolinaika
- 1973-01-20
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- Guinea-Bissau
- Syntymäpaikka
- Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea
- Kuolinpaikka
- Conakry, Guinea
- Kuolinsyy
- assassination
- Asuinpaikat
- Bafatá, Guinea-Bassau (birthplace, then Portuguese Guinea)
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
Guinea-Bissau (3)
Palkinnot
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- Jäseniä
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- Suosituimmuussija
- #100,929
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 4.4
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 1
- ISBN:t
- 30
- Kielet
- 7
This volume was published in 1969, before the establishment of Guinea-Bissau and four years before Cabral was assassinated. Given the year, he has much to say about colonial conflicts in Vietnam and Cuba as well.
I most appreciated Cabral's emphasis on the importance of understanding the characteristics and history of the culture seeking to liberate itself; he asserts frequently that one size of revolution will not fit all, so different strategies will be needed. Unusually for a set of political essays, there is more than one in which he describes the social and political structure of the local indigenous peoples, using these descriptions as the basis for revolutionary strategies that differ from those of straightforward Marxism.
Not an easy read, but a useful one, providing an intelligent insider perspective that also illuminates struggles in Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola, and Vietnam. Worth the effort.… (lisätietoja)