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Your hills and valleys / havent felt the passage of time. /
They remain in your dreams / – your childrens dreams / crying out your woes to the passing winds / and to the carefree birds flying by.
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Books by Amílcar Cabral
Return to the source; selected speeches 1974 / Revolution in Guinea; selected texts, 1970 / Unity and struggle : speeches and writings, 1979
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Fobanjong, John, and Thomas K. Ranuga. The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Cape Verde’s Freedom Fighter Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973): Essays on His Liberation Philosophy. 2006.
McCulloch, Jock. In the Twilight of Revolution: The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral. 1983.
Chilcote, Ronald H. Amílcar Cabral’s Revolutionary Theory and Practice: A Critical Guide. 1991
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Island
By Amilcar Cabral
Mother, in your perennial sleep,
You live naked and forgotten
and barren,
thrashed by the winds,
at the sound of songs without music
sung by the waters that confine us . . .
Island:
Your hills and valleys
havent felt the passage of time.
They remain in your dreams
– your childrens dreams
crying out your woes
to the passing winds
and to the carefree birds flying by.
Island :
Red earth shaped like a hill that never ends
– rocky earth
ragged cliffs blocking all horizons
while tying all our troubles to the winds!
Written in Praia. Cape Verde, 1945
More on Cabral by Cabral
Return to the source; selected speeches , 1974 / Revolution in Guinea; selected texts, 1970 / Unity and struggle : speeches and writings, 1979
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Fobanjong, John, and Thomas K. Ranuga. The Life, Thought, and Legacy of Cape Verde’s Freedom Fighter Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973): Essays on His Liberation Philosophy. 2006.
McCulloch, Jock. In the Twilight of Revolution: The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral. 1983.
Chilcote, Ronald H. Amílcar Cabral’s Revolutionary Theory and Practice: A Critical Guide. 1991.
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Amilcar Cabral Born: 1924 Died: January 20, 1973
Architect and undisputed leader and a founder of the Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in 1956 & the national liberation movement in Guinea-Bissau.
In the early 1950s, Cabral was employed as an Agronomist. Using this position, he went to every village in the entire country and from this direct observation, he came up with an analysis and strategy for the national liberation movement.
With others, beginning in 1963 he waged a full-blown military campaign to overthrown Portuguese colonialism. Within two years they extended greatly the liberated zones where effectively they were in power.
In 1971 Cabral promoted the creation of the National People’s Assembly, which was created in 1972 based on a popular vote in the liberated territories.
In January 1973, months before the PAIGC victory of the national liberation struggle, Cabral was assassinated with the help of Portuguese agents operating within the PAIGC.
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Cuba An African Odyssey is the previously untold story of Cuba’s support for African revolutions.
Cuba: An African Odyssey is the story of the Cold War told through the prism of its least known arena: Africa. It is the untold story of Cubas support for African revolutions. It is the story of men like Patrice Lumumba, Amilcar Cabral, Agosthino Neto and of course Che Guevara who have become icons, mythical figures whose names are now synonymous with the word revolution. This is the story of how these men, caught between capitalism and communism, strove to create a third bloc that would assert the simple principle of national independence. It is the story of a whole dimension of world politics during the last half of the 20th century, which has been hidden behind the facade of a simplistic understanding of superpower conflict.
Cuba: An African Odyssey will tell the inside story of only three of these Cuban escapades. We will start with the Congo where Che Guevara personally spent seven months fighting with the Pro-Lumumbist rebellion in the jungle of Eastern Congo. Then to Guinea Bissau where Amilcar Cabral used the technical support of Cuban advisors to bleed the Portuguese colonial war machine thus toppling the regime in Europe. Finally, Angola where in total 380,000 Cuban soldiers fought during the 27 years of civil war. The Cuban withdrawal from Angola was finally bartered against Namibias independence. With Namibias independence came the fall of Apartheid the last vestige of colonialism on the African continent.
Cuba: An African Odyssey unravels episodes of the Cold War long believed to be nothing but proxy wars. From the tragicomic epic of Che Guevara in Congo to the triumph at the battle of Cuito Carnavale in Angola, this film attempts to understand the world today through the saga of these internationalists who won every battle but finally lost the war.
Credits: Written, directed and narrated by Jihan El-Tahri / Edited by Gilles Bovon / Photography by Frank-Peter Lehmann
Sound Recordists: James Baker, Graciela Barrault / Produced by Tancrède Ramonet, Benoît Juster, Jihan El-Tahri
Source: Snagfilms
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Black Arts Movement (Kalamu) The Black Arts Movement (Smethurst) The Black Arts Movement (Larry Neal)
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Marcus Garvey “Africa For The Africans” / Look For Me in The Whirlwind
Marcus Mosiah Garvey / Marucs Garvey Speech
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AALBC.com’s 25 Best Selling Books
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By Manning Marable
Years in the making-the definitive biography of the legendary black activist. Of the great figure in twentieth-century American history perhaps none is more complex and controversial than Malcolm X. Constantly rewriting his own story, he became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and an icon, all before being felled by assassins’ bullets at age thirty-nine. Through his tireless work and countless speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands of black Americans to create better lives and stronger communities while establishing the template for the self-actualized, independent African American man. In death he became a broad symbol of both resistance and reconciliation for millions around the world.
Manning Marable’s new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement. Filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a sweeping story of race and class in America, from the rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties and sixties.
Reaching into Malcolm’s troubled youth, it traces a path from his parents’ activism through his own engagement with the Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the never-before-told true story of his assassination. Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of the most singular forces for social change, capturing with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
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The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
By Pauline Maier
A notable historian of the early republic, Maier devoted a decade to studying the immense documentation of the ratification of the Constitution. Scholars might approach her books footnotes first, but history fans who delve into her narrative will meet delegates to the state conventions whom most history books, absorbed with the Founders, have relegated to obscurity. Yet, prominent in their local counties and towns, they influenced a conventions decision to accept or reject the Constitution. Their biographies and democratic credentials emerge in Maiers accounts of their elections to a convention, the political attitudes they carried to the conclave, and their declamations from the floor. The latter expressed opponents objections to provisions of the Constitution, some of which seem anachronistic (election regulation raised hackles) and some of which are thoroughly contemporary (the power to tax individuals directly). Ripostes from proponents, the Federalists, animate the great detail Maier provides, as does her recounting how one state conventions verdict affected anothers. Displaying the grudging grassroots blessing the Constitution originally received, Maier eruditely yet accessibly revives a neglected but critical passage in American history.Booklist
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