Return to the Source: Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition

by Amílcar Cabral

Book Overview

A classic collection of essays calling for decolonization through self-liberation

"For us," said Amilcar Cabral, "freedom is an act of culture"--and these were not just words. Guided by the concrete realities of his people, Cabral called for a process of "re-Africanization," a Return to the Source. As a new imperialism has taken hold the world over, many have hearkened back to Return to the Source, but this time, our source...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1685900046
• ISBN13: 9781685900045
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Pan African brilliance

Cabral is the national hero of Cape Verde, and the only African revolutionary to succesfully forge a national liberation movement that was itself Pan-African in stucture and goals- seeking the joint liberation of both Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau. The speeches enclosed give insight into Cabral's socialist ideology, equal rights platform and global mindset. Very few of Cabral's pamphlets/speeches are available in the English language, the most widely read among the few is this very text.