Return to the Source
Amilcar Cabral
Culture as a weapon of the liberation struggle.
This collection of speeches by the agronomist who led the armed struggle against Portuguese rule treats culture as central to liberation. Cabral argued that the colonized intelligentsia had to return to the source, reconnecting with the values of the peasant masses rather than mimicking Europe. His insistence on organization, self-criticism and cultural resistance shaped strategy across Lusophone Africa. He was assassinated in 1973, months before independence.
Its legacy. His idea of culture as resistance influenced liberation movements well beyond Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
- Author
- Amilcar Cabral
- First published
- 1973
- Genre
- Liberation theory
- Theme
- Liberation and the Decolonized Mind
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