Showing posts with label Amilcar Cabral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Amilcar Cabral. Show all posts
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Friday, 19 September 2014
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral
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| Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral |
edited by Firoze Manji & Bill Fletcher
2013
marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral,
revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the independence
movement of Guinea Bissau and Cap Verde. Cabral's influence stretched well
beyond the shores of West Africa. He had a profound influence on the
pan-Africanist movement and the black liberation movement in the US. In this
unique collection of essays contemporary thinkers from across Africa and internationally
commemorate the anniversary of Cabral’s assassination.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Onwards with Integrity
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| Njabulo Ndebele |
Quest
for an honest society necessitates an honest struggle for it. You are
the way you struggle
Amílcar
Cabral, the great African revolutionary who led Guinea-Bissau and
Cape Verde’s struggle against Portuguese colonialism, combined a
strong intellect with a deep passion for his country and its
people.
Although his
admirers are probably aware of the saying “tell no lies . . . claim
no easy victories”, they might not be aware of the full context
from which it is extracted.
“Hide
nothing from the masses of our people,” begins the full quote.
“Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no
difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.”
Friday, 4 January 2013
Cabral and the Disposession (Dehumanization) of Humanity
by Jacques Depelechin, Ota Benga, 2012
It has been
pointed out that the assassination of Amilcar Cabral marked the end
of a sequence of history (Michael Neocosmos) namely the end of
politics through armed struggles. In the process of thinking and
re-thinking the legacy of Amilcar Cabral is it possible to say
anything that has not been already said, either by himself, or by
those who have written about him? Is it possible to go beyond just
citing words and/or phrases that reconnect to his vision of an
emancipated Africa? Is it possible to accept that, from the end of
WWII, if not before, history has unfolded as imposed by the most
powerful economic and political forces.
Sunday, 9 December 2012
Africana Critical Theory
by Reiland Rabaka
Reconstructing
the Black Radical Tradition, from W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James to
Frantz Fanon and Amilcar Cabral.
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory.
Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes continental and diasporan African contributions to classical and contemporary critical theory. This book represents a climatic critical theoretical clincher that cogently demonstrates how Du Bois's rarely discussed dialectical thought, interdisciplinarity, intellectual history-making radical political activism, and world-historical multiple liberation movement leadership helped to inaugurate a distinct Africana tradition of critical theory.
Thursday, 29 March 2012
National Liberation and Culture
by Amilcar Cabral, 1970 (Reprinted in the Journal of Pan-African Studies)
When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis, who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination--even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor of resistance to foreign domination.
When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis, who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination--even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor of resistance to foreign domination.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
The Weapon of Theory
by Amilcar Cabral, The Marxists Internet Archive
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966.
If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we have been able to see. Our hearts are now warmed by an unshakeable certainty which gives us courage in the difficult but glorious struggle against the common enemy: no power in the world will be able to destroy this Cuban Revolution, which is creating in the countryside and in the towns not only a new life but also — and even more important — a New Man, fully conscious of his national, continental and international rights and duties. In every field of activity the Cuban people have made major progress during the last seven years, particularly in 1965, Year of Agriculture.
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