Amilcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist

286 Pages·2021·112.139 MB·English

by  António Tomás

ANT6NIO TOMAS
Amilcar Cabral
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The oJ a Reluctant l{ationalist
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HURST & COMPANY, LONDON
First published in the United Kingdom in 2021by
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Photographs reproduced with the kind permission of DAC-Documentos
Amilcar Cabral/Arquivo da FundaSo M6rio Soares.
To -y beloved uncle,
Aldemiro

CONTENTS
List oJ A*onyms and Abbreviatioas xl
Inhoduction
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1. Between Guinea and CapeVerde t7
2. TheYears in Lisbon 33
3. Engineer and Clandestine Militant 53
4. Shattering theWalls of Silence 77
5. A United Front 87
5. Modes of MakingWar 109
7. The Capely'erdean Question 127
8. A State Inside the Colony 135
9. Winning in PoliticsWithout Losing theWar 149
10. Towards Independence 169
1 1. The Killing of Cabral 187
Epilogue 203
Notes 215
Bibliogruphy 233
Index 243
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LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
CBC Congressional Black Caucus
CEI Casa dos Estudantes do Imp6rio
CEL Conselho Executivo da Luta (PAIGC)
CIMADE Comit6 inter-mouvements auprds des 6vacu6s
CNCV Conselho Nacional de CapeVerde
CONCP Conferdncia das Organizag6es Nacionalistas das
Col6nias Portuguesas
CSL Conselho Superior da Luta
CUF Companhia Uniio Fabril
FARP Forgas Armadas Revolucionirias do Povo (PAIGC)
FLG Frente de Libertagio da Guin6
FLGC Frente de Libertagio da Guin6 e de CaboVerde
FLING Frente de Libertagio Nacional da Guin6
FNLA Frente Nacional de LibertagSo de Angola
FRELIMO Frente de LibertagSo de Mogambique
FUL Frente Unida de Libertagio
GNR Guarda Nacional Republicana
GPRA Gouvernement provisoire de la R6publique
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GRAE Governo da Repriblica de Angola no Exilio
ILO International Labour Organization
ITU International Telecommunication Union
MAC Movimento Anti - Colonialista
MFA Movimento das Forgas Armadas
MLG Movimento de LibertaEio da Guin6
MLGCV Movimento de LibertagSo da Guin6 e CaboVerde
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LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
MPD Movimento para a Democracia
MPLA Movimento Popular de Libertaglo de Angola
NAACP National Association for t}e Advancement of
Colored People
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
OSPAAAL Organizagio de Solidariedade dos Povos de Af.i"u,
Asia e Am6rica Latina
OAU Organization of African Unity
PAI (Guinea and Partido Africano da Independ6ncia
CapeVerde)
PAI (Senegal) Parti Africain de I'Ind6pendance
PAICV Partido Africano para a Independ6ncia de Cabo
Verde
PAIGC Partido Africano para a Independ6ncia da Guin6 e
CaboVerde
PCP Partido Comunista Portugu6s
PDG Parti D6mocratique de la Guin6e
PIDE/DGS Policia Internacional da Defesa do Estado/
Direcgio Geral de Seguranga
PSP Policia de Seguranga Priblica
RDG Rassemblement D6mocratique de la Guin6e
UDC Uniio Democritica de CaboVerde
UDENAMO Unilo Democr6tica Nacional de Mogambique
UN United Nations
UPA Uniio dos Povos de Angola
UPG Uniio dos Povos da Guin6
UPICV Uni6o dos Povos para a Independ6ncia de Cabo
Verde
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