Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership and People's War
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| Rating | : | 4.92 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592210821 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among his books are The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (1996) and The History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (2002), both of which he was the editor. About the Author Patrick Chabal is professor of lusophone African studies at King’s College, London.
. Patrick Chabal is professor of lusophone African studies at King’s College, London. Among his books are The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa (1996) and The History of Postcolonial Lusophone Africa (2002), both of which he was the editor
"A Great Pan-African" according to Elijah Chingosho. The book does an excellent job of enlightening readers about the life and achievements of Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa's finest liberation war fighters and leader and thinker. Below are some of the highlights in the book.Amilcar Lopes Cabral was born in 192A Great Pan-African Elijah Chingosho The book does an excellent job of enlightening readers about the life and achievements of Amilcar Cabral, one of Africa's finest liberation war fighters and leader and thinker. Below are some of the highlights in the book.Amilcar Lopes Cabral was born in 1924. He was born in the Portuguese colony of Guinea (now Guinea Bissau). He received his education in Lisbon, Portugal and was an agronomic engineer. While studying in Lisbon, he founded student movements dedicated to African nationalism.He returned home in the 1950s. . He was born in the Portuguese colony of Guinea (now Guinea Bissau). He received his education in Lisbon, Portugal and was an agronomic engineer. While studying in Lisbon, he founded student movements dedicated to African nationalism.He returned home in the 1950s. A Customer said A first rate political biography of Amilcar Cabral.. Patrick Chabal's Amilcar Cabral is a first-rate political biography of Amilcar Cabral. Indeed, this work is the most thorough, critical, and objective source of information and analysis of this important African democratic revolutionary that I have come across. Chabal tells a thorough and compelling story of Cabral and critically analyzes the development of his revolutionary philosophy and political skills within the context of colonial Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. I highly recommend this work to anyone looking for a. "Who said Africa has produced no great leaders??" according to gwaan. Given that not much literature (in English) is available regarding the great Amilcar Cabral, this book automatically deserves much credit and praise.It tells, in astonishing detail and good-research, the life and times of a now very much forgotten African leader.The book brilliantly discusses:1. Amilcar Cabral as an outstanding academic in agriculture and in political thought.2. Amilcar Cabral as a highly admirable person whose charisma, insistence on fairness, dialogue and forgiveness were not only admirable, but act
At a time when there is a general sense of despondency about the future of Africa, as well as cynicism about its political elites, it is instructive to be reminded that the continent has produced a political leader of Cabral’s caliber.. This book, first published in 1983 by Cambridge University Press and now issued for the first time in paperback with a new preface, tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau’s nationalist movement, became one of Africa’s foremost revolutionary leaders. In less than twenty years of active political life, Cabral led Guinea-Bissau’s nationalists to the most complete political and military success ever achieved by an African political movement against a colonial power. At the time of his death in 1973, months before Guinea-Bissau became independent, his influence extended well beyond the Lusophone world and Africa. Friends and foes alike admired his political acumen and skills and saw in him a potential leader of a non-aligned movement. His writings have shown him to be a sophisticated analyst of the social, economic, and political factors which have affected and continue to affect the developing world