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Africa's Contemporary Challenges: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral book cover

1st Edition

Africa's Contemporary Challenges The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

Edited By Carlos Lopes Copyright 2010
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals the continent has produced. This rare combination of freedom fighter, operational campaigner and... Read more

1. Amilcar Cabral: a contemporary inspiration - Carlos Lopes 2. Amilcar Cabral and the liberation of Guinea-Bissau: context, challenges and lessons for African leadership - Peter Karibe Mendy  3. Amilcar Cabral and the fortunes of African literature - Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Abebe Zegeye  4. Les apparitions de la nation chez Amilcar Cabral - Alexis Wick  5. Challenges to state building Africa - Charmaine Pereira  6. Reading Cabral on democracy - Lars Rudebeck  7. Culture, consciousness and armed conflict: Cabral’s déclassé / (lumpen proletariat?) in the era of globalization - Ibrahim Abdullah  8. Articulating Cabral’s regionalist and pan-Africanist visions - John Fobanjong  9. Amilcar Cabral: National Liberation as the basis for Africa’s renaissances - Maurice Taonezvi Vambe and Abebe Zegeye  10. Amilcar Cabral’s legacy in the light of the challenges of contemporary ethics - Carlos Lopes

Biography

Carlos Lopes is a prominent African scholar and has published over 20 books in the field of development, history and political science. He is currently the Executive Director of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), Switzerland.

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