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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Author	Biographies
Preface
Section	1:	Introduction
1.	Introduction
Amílcar	Cabral	and	the	Struggle	of	Memory
Against	Forgetting	(Firoze	Manji	and	Bill
Fletcher	Jr.)
Section	2:	The	Legacy	of	Amílcar	Cabral
2.	No	Easy	Victories
Some	Reflections	on	Amílcar	Cabral’s	Legacy
(Nigel	C.	Gibson)
3.	Class	Suicide
The	Petit	Bourgeoisie	and	the	Challenges	of
Development	(Samir	Amin)
4.	Amilcar	Cabral	and	the	Pan-african	Revolution	(Ameth	Lo)
5.	Amilcar	Cabral
An	Agronomist	Before	His	Time	(Carlos
Schwarz)
6.	The	Cabral	Era
Strategic	and	Foreign	Policy	Objectives	(Richard
A.	Lobban,	Jr.)
7.	The	Weapon	of	Theory
Amílcar	Cabral	and	Africana	Critical	Theory
(Reiland	Rabaka)
8.	“Weapons	of	Theory”
Employing	Amílcar	Cabral	in	the	Present	(Nigel
Westmaas)
9.	Sons	of	the	Soil
Cabral	and	Saramago	(Grant	Farred)
10.	Cabral
His	Thoughts	and	Actions	in	the	Context	of	Our
Time	(Mustafah	Dhada)
11.	In	the	Space	of	Amílcar	Cabral	(Helmi	Sharawy)
12.		‘The	Cancer	of	Betrayal,	which	We	Must	Uproot	from	Afrika	…’
(Aziz	Salmone	Fall)
Section	3:	Reflections	on	Cabral
13.	To	Want	and	to	Live
Thoughts	for	Today,	Inspired	by	Amílcar	Cabral
(Lewis	R.	Gordon)
14.	Cabral	and	the	Dispossession	(Dehumanization)	of	Humanity
(Jacques	Depelchin)
15.		Thinking	with	Our	Own	Heads	and	Walking	with	Our	Own	Feet
Interview	with	Augusta	Henriques	and	Miguel
Barros	of	Tiniguena,	(Molly	Kane)
16.	The	Significance	Today	of	the	Charismatic	Figure,	Amílcar	Cabral
(Filomeno	Lopes)
17.	On	Shooting	the	Body	and	Not	the	Shadow
Honouring	and	Learning	from	Cabral	Forty	Years
Later	(Wangui	Kimari)
18.	Amílcar	Cabral:	With	Us	Today	(Adrian	Harewood)
19.	Revolutionary	Democracy,	Class-Consciousness,	and	Cross-Class
Movement	Building
Lessons	from	Amílcar	Cabral	(Maria	Poblet)
20.	Telling	No	Lies	is	Not	Easy
A	Reflection	on	Following	Cabral’s	Watchwords
(William	Minter)
21.	Amílcar	Cabral
Tribute	to	an	Original	and	Revolutionary	Thinker
(Demba	Moussa	Dembélé)
Section	4:	Cabral,	Women,	and	Emancipation
22.	“But	We	Have	to	Fight	Twice”
Reflections	on	the	Contribution	of	Amílcar	Cabral
to	the	Liberation	of	Women	(Stephanie	Urdang)
23.	From	Theory	to	Practice
Amílcar	Cabral	and	Guinean	Women	in	the	Fight
for	Emancipation	(Patrícia	Godinho	Gomes)
Section	5:	Cabral	and	the	Pan-Africanists
24.	Walter	Rodney	and	Amílcar	Cabral
Common	Commitments	and	Connected	Praxi
(Patricia	Rodney,	Asha	Rodney,	Jesse	Benjamin,
Hashim	Gibril,	and	Senai	Abraha)
25.	Class	and	Struggle
Cabral,	Rodney,	and	the	Complexities	of	Culture
in	Africa	(David	Austin)
26.	Remembering	Cabral	Today	(Amrit	Wilson)
27.		Cabral’s	Theory	of	Struggle	and	Caribbean	Revolutionary
Parallels	(Perry	Mars)
28.	Amílcar	Cabral	and	Pan-Africanism	(Explo	Nani-Kofi)
Section	6:	Cabral,	Culture,	and	Education
29.		Cabral,	Culture,	Progress,	and	the	Metaphysics	of	Difference
(Olúfémi	Táíwò)
30.	Cabral	and	Freire
The	Importance	of	Cultural	Capital	in	Rebuilding
a	Successful	Education	System	in	Guinea-Bissau
(Brandon	Lundy)
31.	Cabral,	Culture,	and	Education	(N.	Barney	Pityana)
32.	RAP	KRIOL(U)
The	Pan-Africanism	of	Cabral	in	the	Music	of	the
Youth	(Miguel	de	Barros	and	Redy	Wilson	Lima)
Section	7:	Cabral	and	African	American	Struggles
33.		Amílcar	Cabral	and	the	Transformation	of	the	African	American
Left	in	the	United	States	(Bill	Fletcher,	Jr.)
34.	Linking	the	Struggles
Amílcar	Cabral	and	His	Impact	and	Legacy	in	the
Black	Liberation	Movement	(Kali	Akuno)
35.	Praxis	from	the	Centre	Back	to	the	Margins
Amílcar	Cabral’s	Method	as	a	Guide	for
Reconstructing	the	Radical	Black	Political
Subject	(Ajamu	Baraka)
36.		Cabral,	Black	Liberation,	and	Cultural	Struggle	(Makungu	M.
Akinyela)
37.		The	Black	Panther	Party,	African	Liberation,	and	Amílcar	Cabral
(Walter	Turner)
38.	Memories	Of	Black	Liberation
Amílcar	Cabral	(Angela	Davis)
Select	Bibliography
Compiled	by	Chris	Webb,	Jean-Pierre	Diouf	and	Firoze	Manji
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The	editors	wish	to	thank	Kenny	Desain,	Maggie	Dessain,	and	the	CreateSpace	editor	for	their	assistance
with	copyediting,	Fernanda	Mendy,	the	late	Sputnik	Kilamba,	and	Victoria	Bawtree	for	translations,	and
to	contributing	authors	for	their	enthusiasm	and	commitment	to	this	project.
The	 publication	 of	 this	 book	 was	 made	 possible	 by	 a	 grant	 from	 the	 Rosa	 Luxemburg	 Foundation,
Senegal.
AUTHOR	BIOGRAPHIES
Senai	Abraha	is	a	PhD	candidate	at	Kennesaw	State	University’s	International	Conflict	Management
Program.	He	is	currently	writing	his	PhD	thesis,	entitled	“Modeling	Peacekeeping:	the	Case	of	Canada
Examined.”	 Senai	 earned	 his	 master’s	 degree	 in	 international	 development	 management	 from	 the
University	of	Bradford	in	the	UK	and	his	bachelor	of	arts	in	business	management.	He	has	conducted
research	on	various	African	development	and	security	issues	and	has	presented	this	work	in	different
arenas,	including	the	annual	China	Goes	Global	conference	at	Harvard	University	and	the	Black	History
conference	at	Atlanta.	Senai	speaks	Amharic,	Tigrigna,	and	English	fluently	and	has	a	basic	grasp	on
French,	Spanish,	and	German.
Makungu	M.	Akinyela,	is	an	associate	professor	in	the	Department	of	African	American	Studies	at
Georgia	State	University.	He	is	a	family	therapist	practicing	in	Georgia.	He	has	published	and	lectured	on
critical	African-centred	theory,	critical	pedagogy,	and	cultural	democracy,	particularly	as	these	issues
relate	to	mental	health.	He	is	the	son	of	Mississippi	civil	rights	activists	and	came	of	age	during	the	Black
Power	movement	in	Los	Angeles,	California.	He	became	a	student	activist	under	the	mentorship	of	the
Revolutionary	Action	Movements	House	of	Umoja	and	the	African	People’s	Party.	As	a	political	activist,
he	was	a	founding	member	of	the	Coalition	Against	Police	Abuse	(CAPA)	in	Los	Angeles,	the	New
African	People’s	Organization,	and	the	Malcolm	X	Grassroots	Movement.
Kali	Akuno	is	an	organiser,	educator,	and	writer	for	human	rights	and	social	justice.	He	is	an	organiser
for	the	Malcolm	X	Grassroots	Movement	(MXGM)	(see	www.mxgm.org)	and	former	codirector	of	the
US	Human	Rights	Network	(see	www.ushrnetwork.org).	Kali	also	served	as	the	executive	director	of	the
Peoples’	Hurricane	Relief	Fund	(PHRF)	based	in	New	Orleans,	Louisiana,	after	Hurricane	Katrina	and
was	a	cofounder	of	the	School	of	Social	Justice	and	Community	Development	(SSJCD),	a	public	school
serving	low-income	African-American	and	Latino	communities	in	Oakland,	California.	He	is	the	author	of
several	critical	works	including,	Born	of	Struggle,	Implemented	through	Struggle,	Let	Your	Motto	Be
Resistance,	and	Operation	Ghetto	Storm.	Kali	can	be	reached	at	[email protected].
Samir	Amin	is	an	Egyptian	Marxist	economist	and	director	of	the	Third	World	Forum	in	Dakar,	Senegal.
He	is	one	of	the	world’s	greatest	radical	thinkers—a	creative	Marxist	who	went	from	communist	activism
in	Nasser’s	Egypt,	to	advising	African	socialist	leaders	such	as	Julius	Nyerere	and	being	a	leading	figure
in	the	World	Social	Forum.	Samir	Amin’s	ideas	were	formed	in	the	heady	ferment	of	the	1950s	and
1960s,	when	Pan-Africanists	like	Kwamah	Nkrumah,	Nasser,	and	liberation	movements	thrived	across	the
continent	from	South	Africa	to	Algeria.	His	major	works	include	Capitalism	in	the	Age	of	Globalization
(1996),	Delinking—Toward	a	Polycentric	World	(1990),	Eurocentrism	(1990),	Re-reading	the	Post-war
Period	(1994),	and	The	People’s	Spring:	The	Future	of	the	Arab	Revolutions	(2012).
David	Austin	is	the	author	of	Fear	of	a	Black	Nation:	Race,	Sex,	and	Security	in	Sixties	Montreal.	He	is
also	the	editor	of	You	Don’t	Play	with	Revolution:	The	Montreal	Lectures	of	C.L.R.	James.	He	currently
teaches	in	the	Humanities,	Philosophy,	and	Religion	Department	at	John	Abbott	College	in	Montreal.
Ajamu	Baraka	is	a	veteran	grassroots	organiser	whose	roots	lie	in	the	Black	Liberation	Movement.	An
activist	and	organiser	for	over	forty	years,	Baraka	has	been	at	the	forefront	of	efforts	to	develop	and	apply
a	radical	people-centred	human-rights	framework	to	social	justice	organising	and	advocacy	in	the	United
States	over	the	last	two	decades.	Baraka	has	appeared	on	a	wide	range	of	print,	broadcast,	and	digital
media	 and	 is	 a	 contributing	 writer	 for	 various	 publications,	 including	 Black	 Commentator,
Commondreams,	Pambazuka,	Counterpunch,	and	Black	Agenda	Report.	Baraka	is	currently	an	associate
fellow	at	the	Institute	for	Policy	Studies	(IPS)	in	Washington,	DC	and	is	editing	a	new	book	on	human
rights	in	the	United	States	entitled,	The	Struggle	for	People-Centred	Human	Rights:	Voices	from	the
Field.
Miguel	Barros	is	a	research	associate	at	the	National	Institute	of	Studies	and	Research	(INEP)	of	Guinea-
Bissau	and	the	current	executive	director	of	Tiniguena.	Miguel’s	own	activism	began	within	Tiniguena’s
youth	movement,	the	New	Generation	of	Tiniguena,	for	which	he	served	as	coordinator	from	1999	to
2002.	Miguel	has	represented	Tiniguena	in	national	and	international	networks	focused	on	the	struggles
surrounding	extractive	industries	and	biodiversity.
Jesse	Benjamin	is	coordinator	of	the	African	and	African	Diaspora	Studies	Program	and	an	associate
professor	of	interdisciplinary	studies	and	sociology	at	Kennesaw	State	University.	He	is	a	sociologist	and
cultural	anthropologist	and	is	actively	involved	in	a	wide	range	of	teaching	and	research	endeavors
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