Edited by Africa Information Service
Amilcar Cabral, who was the Secretary-General of the African
Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands
(PAIGC), was assassinated by Portuguese agents on January 20,
1973. Under his leadership, the PAIGC liberated three-quarters of
the countryside of Guinea in less than ten years of revolutionary
struggle. Cabral distinguished himself among modern
revolutionaries by the long and careful preparation, both
theoretical and practical, which he undertook before launching
the revolutionary struggle, and, in the course of this
preparation, became one of the world's outstanding
theoreticians of anti-imperialist struggle.
This volume contains some of the principal speeches Cabral
delivered in his last years during visits to the United States.
Speeches on "National Liberation and Culture" (1970)
and "Identity and Dignity in the Context of the National
Liberation Struggle" (1972). The New Year's Message of
January 1973 is included, as his last written statemaent to the
people of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, this constitues the
political testament of Amilcar Cabral.
Monthly Review Press, 1973, Maps, Further Reading, softcover,
110 pp
