Resistance and Decolonization: Reinventing critical theory

Amílcar Cabral (2016)

„In Resistance and Decolonization, a new translation of Amilcar Cabral’s theories of revolution, culture, identity, politics, and
organization, the reader is ushered through familiar but refreshingly new doors of insight into Cabral and the African Party for the Independence of Guineau and Cape Verde (PAIGC).“ – Charles Peterson, 2017

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 the African revolutionary Amílcar Cabral explores these and other questions. 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 Cabral’s thoughts and instructions as articulated here help us to rethink important issues concerning nationalism, culture, vanguardism, revolution, liberation, colonialism, race, and history. (Verweis: Rowman & Littlefield)