Throughout his infancy and adolescent years, events of the time and the environment he lived in, influenced passion for Cabral to become a leader of his people. Despite a tight and oppressed regime and within
the allowable limits, his father was a defender of the people and his mother provided lifetime lessons of survival and family ties. As his brother Luis Cabral affirmed, "years later when Amilcar established PAIGC, there's no doubt that it was modeled on the foundation and sentiments provided early in life by our beloved father."
Amilcar Cabral
There can be no doubt that Amilcar Cabral is the most original political and revolutionary thinker Africa has produced in modern times. What is often overlooked and less well known is that Cabral was
an innovative and important military thinker within the context of Africa and the Third World. The purpose of this essay is to examine and extract through Cabral's writings and related scholarship his key politico-military strategies which enabled him to lead the African Independence Party for the liberation of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC) to victory over the Portuguese colonialists. It is the contention of this study that a successful socialist revolution is unlikely to take place anywhere in Africa without African revolutionaries learning some of the political and military lessons of Amilcar Cabral.
Amilcar Cabral: an extraction from the literature!
Cabral's vision inscribed on the original flag
Sometimes Amilcar Cabral could not say openly most of what he thought for his vision was a forecast for the future in reality and actuality. Given the profound significance the symbol had for Cape Verde and Capeverdeans around the world, CaboVerdeOnline.com felt compelled to bring out the cultural ties the original flag
meant to mother Africa.
Amilcar Cabral: A historical point of reference
I was at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia once, in which many educators congregated to discuss the fate of public schools.
I remember being in an area lounge chatting with other colleagues when a group of Black professors (my guess), dressed in their African outfits sat nearby. Most of them were sporting short, neatly
cut Afros or dreadlocks. What caught my attention, (besides everything else that I have listed above), was that they were carrying stacks of books under their arms (that's how I guessed they were professors) and were talking about classes that they were teaching at their respective universities.
