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

A classic collection of essays calling for decolonization through self-liberation For us, said Amilcar Cabral, freedom is an act of cultureand 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 of inspiration is Cabral himself. With a system of thought rooted in an African reading of Marx, Cabral was a deep-thinking revolutionary who applied the principles of decolonization as a dialectic task, and in so doing became one of the worlds most profoundly influential and effective theoreticians of antiimperialist struggle. Cabral and his fellow Pan-African movement leaders catalyzed and fortified a militant wave of liberation struggles beginning in Angola, moving through Cabrals homelands of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, and culminating in Mozambique and beyond. He translated abstract theories into agile praxis and in under just ten years steered the liberation of threequarters of the countryside of Guinea Bissau from Portuguese colonial domination. In this new, expanded edition of Read more