Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist

On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party....
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Author: António Tomás
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Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist by Tomás, António

Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist

$127.40

Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist

$127.40
Author: António Tomás
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgents were Bissau- Guineans, aiming to get rid of the Cape Verdeans who dominated the party elite.

Despite Cabral's assassination, Portuguese Guinea became the independent Republic of Guinea- Bissau. The guerrilla war that Cabral had started and led precipitated a chain of events that would lead to the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, toppling the forty-year-old authoritarian regime. This paved the way for the rest of Portugal's African colonies to achieve independence.
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Written by a native of Angola, this biography narrates Cabrals revolutionary trajectory, from his early life in Portuguese Guinea to his death at the hands of his own men. It details his quest for national sovereignty, beleaguered by the ethnic-based identity conflicts the national liberation movement struggled to overcome. Through the life of Cabral, António Tomás critically reflects on existing ways of thinking and writing about the independence of Lusophone Africa.


Author: António Tomás
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/15/2021
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780197525579

About the Author

António Tomás is a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University, in New York. He has worked as a journalist in Angola and Portugal and has written extensively on issues related to Lusophone Africa.

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