Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde

Víctor Barros is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (IHC – NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST). His main research interest is Portuguese colonialism, decolonsation, transnational networks of anticolonial solidarity and the construction of memory of the Portuguese empire in Africa.Aurora Almada e Santos is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Sciences and Humanities and the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (IHC – NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST). Her main research interest is Portuguese decolonisation, namely the transnational dimension of the struggle for the independence of the Portuguese African colonies.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsForeward - P. Khalil SaucierIntroductionAmílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde – Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e SantosAnticolonial ThoughtChapter 1Placing the West Before a Tribunal: Strategies of Critique in African Anticolonial Discourse – Branwen Gruffydd JonesChapter 2Amílcar Cabral, the Just War, and the Right of Oppressed Peoples to Solidarity and Happiness – Julião Soares SousaCurrent ReadingsChapter 3Amílcar Cabral as an Engaged and Dialectical Political Ecologist: Relating Land, Production and Circulation, 1946–1961 – Aharon deGrassiChapter 4On Amílcar Cabral’s Humanism – Olúfẹ́mi TáíwòNetworks of SolidarityChapter 5Non-Governmental Organisations Support for Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC in the United States – Zachary C. PetersonChapter 6Splendour and Fall of a Revolutionary: Amílcar Cabral and the Italian Reception of his Thinking in the 1960s and 1970s – Vincenzo RussoChapter 7The United Nations Visiting Missions to Guinea and Cabo Verde: 1972 and 1975 – Aurora Almada e SantosPostcolonial Memory and LegaciesChapter 8Amílcar Cabral: Memory and Legacy in the Language Policy of Guinea-Bissau’s Education System – Rui da Silva, Miguel Filipe Silva and Rui Jorge SemedoChapter 9Amílcar Cabral: An African Leader Forged by Propaganda Films – Paulo Cunha and Catarina LaranjeiroChapter 10Commemorating Amílcar Cabral as a Nation’s Founding Father and a Global Revolutionary: Binational Memory, Local Designs, Transnational Dimensions – Víctor Barros