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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, which includes the first translation of the text ‘Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance’ as well as ‘The Role of Culture in the Struggle for Independence,’ 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, and justly compared in importance to Frantz Fanon, Cabral’s thoughts and instructions as articulated here help us to rethink important issues concerning nationalism, culture, vanguardism, revolution, liberation, colonialism, race, and history. The volume also includes two introductory essays: the first introduces Cabral’s work within the context of Africana critical theory, and the second situates these texts in the context their historical-political context and analyzes their relevance for contemporary anti-imperialism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments / Part I. Amílcar Cabral and Critical Theory: Introductions, Investigations, and Interpretations / 1.The Weapon of Critical Theory: Amílcar Cabral, Cabralism, and Africana Critical Theory, Reiland Rabaka / 2. Imbrications of Coloniality: An Introduction to Cabralist Critical Theory in Relation to Contemporary Struggles, Dan Wood / Bibliography to Part I / Translator’s Note / Bibliography to the Translator’s Note / Part II. Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance / 3.Political Resistance / 4. Economic Resistance / 5. Cultural Resistance / 6. Armed Resistance / 7. The Role of Culture in the Struggle for Independence / Index

Product details

Published Mar 30 2016
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 1
ISBN 9798881879143
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Series Reinventing Critical Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Introduction

Reiland Rabaka

Translator

Dan Wood

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