A revealing documentary compilation from historic footage shot by the National Institute of Cinema in Mozambique which looks at the rehabilitation of former colonial government collaborators by the government of Samora Machel (former president of Mozambique).
A Encyclopaedia Africana
March 8, 2021
AMILCAR CABRAL
Amílcar Cabral, also known as Abel Djassi, was a leader in the struggle for independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral was a writer, agronomic engineer, and Marxist nationalist. He was born on September 12, 1924 in Bafata, Portuguese Guinea. His father, Juvenal Cabral was Cape Verdean and his mother Iva Pinhel Évora was Guinean. In 1932 his family moved …
A Encyclopaedia Africana
September 14, 2020
AMILCAR CABRAL
Amilcar’s revolutionary theory was aimed at ending colonial domination, but he believed that this objective would only achieve “flag independence.”
Encyclopaedia Africana I
August 26, 2020
ISLAND OF GOREE (SENEGAL)
it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Today it continues to serve as a reminder of human exploitation and as a sanctuary for reconciliation.