Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973) was a writer, intellectual and one of Africa’s foremost anticolonial leaders. He led the nationalist movement for Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde Islands and the ensuing revolution for independence in Guinea Bissau. He was assassinated by the Portuguese secret police in January 1973.Dan Wood, the translator, is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Villanova University.Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

• Acknowledgments / Part I. Amílcar Cabral and Critical Theory: Introductions, Investigations, and Interpretations / 1.The Weapon of Critical Theory: Amílcar Cabral, Cabralism, and Africana Critical Theory, Reiland Rabaka / 2. Imbrications of Coloniality: An Introduction to Cabralist Critical Theory in Relation to Contemporary Struggles, Dan Wood / Bibliography to Part I / Translator’s Note / Bibliography to the Translator’s Note / Part II. Analysis of a Few Types of Resistance / 3.Political Resistance / 4. Economic Resistance / 5. Cultural Resistance / 6. Armed Resistance / 7. The Role of Culture in the Struggle for Independence / Index

Amilcar Cabral defines African critical theory as well as radical African politics. This book shows the unfailing engagement and the rigourous thinking a concrete philosopher needs in order to decolonize a society. That’s true even in contemporary struggles. This book belongs to the “postcolonial library”