Return to the Source
by Amílcar Cabral
Africa's sharpest revolutionary thinker, his own words.
you want to understand African liberation movements as serious political theory rather than romantic mythology
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Cabral led the independence movement of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde and was assassinated in 1973, months before independence. These essays — on culture, identity, class, and revolutionary strategy — show why he is considered the most sophisticated African political thinker of the 20th century. He argued that culture was the foundation of resistance — that you could not liberate a people without returning them to their own history and self-understanding. A dispatch from inside the mind that made liberation possible.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Guinea-Bissau • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Guinean author
- Themes
- After Empire
