Reading Cabral in 1993: Killing a Man but Not His Work

Lars Rudebeck In the first of three essays to mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, Lars Rudebeck celebrates Cabral’s extraordinary writing, speeches and interviews. The piece includes reflections on personal conversations Rudebeck held with Cabral at various points. While celebratory, Rudebeck…

The Secret of the Failure of Liberation: A Tribute and Celebration of Amilcar Cabral

Leo Zeilig, Chinedu Chukwudinma, and Ben Radley The Amilcar Cabral Foundation in Praia, the capital city of Cape Verde. 28 February 2015, In 1973, fifty years ago, Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the national revolution in Guinea and Cape Verde was murdered. For the next three weeks roape.net will be celebrating his contribution to radical…

How Guinea and the PDG Helped Shape Modern Pan-Africanism

 Ahjamu Umi Today, the European left has embraced African revolutionaries like Amilcar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau.  If you follow their writings on his contributions, you would believe he was a Marxist-Leninist who was seeking to build a Marxist-Leninist party in Guinea-Bissau.  In Ghana, the truth and actual legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is finally being brought to the surface and as…

The PAIGC’s Political Education for Liberation in Guinea-Bissau, 1963–74

TRICONTINENTAL DOWNLOAD PDF “We do not confuse exploitation or exploiters with the colour of men’s skins; we do not want any exploitation in our countries, not even by black people” ….. – Amilcar Cabral The PAIGC’s Struggle for Liberation The liberation struggle against colonialism, if it is to be a total liberation struggle, is not…

How Amilcar Cabral Shaped Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy

Curry Malott Frantz Fanon’s influence on Paulo Freire’s thought is well known, but the Brazilian educator also drew considerably from Amílcar Cabral, the revolutionary intellectual from Guinea-Bissau. Amílcar L Cabral was born 12 September 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of Portugal’s African colonies. He was murdered on 20 January 1973 by fascist Portuguese assassins just…

Amílcar Cabral: On Taking Arms, Theory, Poetry, and African Liberation

Yousef Aljamal A boy brandishes a poster of Malam Bacai Sanha of the former single ruling party founded by independence-era hero Amilcar Cabral (PAIGC), 17 June 2005, in front of Bissau’s Palace of the Republic. Photo by Seyllou, AFP via Getty Images When the African struggle for liberation and the fight to end colonialism is…