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Cabral, Amílcar (1924–1973)

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Amílcar Lopes Cabral was an African intellectual revolutionary trained in Portuguese Marxism, who made a significant contribution to the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde islands.

Amílcar Lopes Cabral was an African intellectual revolutionary trained in Portuguese Marxism, who made a significant contribution to the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde islands. In his monumental Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction, Robert J.C. Young says: ‘From the perspective of African Socialism … the greatest figure of those who were forced to resort to violence in order to achieve liberation was from neither a Francophone nor an Anglophone, but a Lusophone culture: Amilcar Cabral’ (2003: 283). Born in Bafat, Guinea Bissau on 12 September 1924, Cabral attained his elementary education in Infante Don Henrique primary school in the town of Mindelo, Cape Verde. His father, Juvenal Cabral, was a mulatto from the Cape Verde islands. The people of...

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  • Cabral, A. (1969). Selected texts by Amícar Cabral: Revolution in Guinea. An African People’s struggle. London: Stage 1.

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  • Cabral, A. (1974). Return to the source: Selected speeches. New York: Monthly Review Press.

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  • Chabal, P. (1983). Amílcar Cabral: Revolutionary leadership and People’s war. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.

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  • Davidson, B. (1989). The fortunate isles: A study in African transformation. New Brunswick: Africa World Press Inc.

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  1. Department of English, School of Languages, Literature and Culture, Central University of Punjab, Punjab, India

    Vipan Pal Singh

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Singh, V.P. (2020). Cabral, Amílcar (1924–1973). In: Ness, I., Cope, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_297-1

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