Background
Cabral, Amilcar Lopes was born on September 12, 1924 in Batata. GuineaBissau.
Cabral, Amilcar Lopes was born on September 12, 1924 in Batata. GuineaBissau.
University of Lisbon, Institute of Agronomy, tofls.
1950-1954, Colonial Agricultural Service. 1956, Founder and General Secretary, Partido Africano da Independencia da Guiñee Cabo Verde. Initiated a revolutionary war in 1963, which ended in Guinean '"dependence from Portugal.
Cabral’s writings have been largely in the form of declarations, communiqués and political confereces, together with the odd radio broadcast. As ^evolutionary theorist as well as leader of the AIGC, the party which sought, and succeeded,,n gaining independence from Portugese colonial "tie in 1973, his theoretical writings were centred largely on the development of a revolutionary strategy based on African, specifically Guinean, c°nditions, rather than the wholesale importation °f other revolutionary experiences. Between 1952 and 1954 he elaborated a study of the social structure of Guinean tribal groups, and it was on Basis of this that he posited the distinction etween peasantry as a physical rather than a "®volutionary force, differences between them e,ng a ‘secondary contradiction’ which a sophisticated party apparatus could deal with. Of wider import, whilst accepting the central role of class struggle at certain historical stages, especially in the fight against ‘rationalized imperialism’ as he labelled colonialism, he examines the determining elements of class struggle, concluding that the real motive force of history is the mode of production, much more useful in the African colonialist context where, he held, for people without history, positing history as a prime revolutionary mover is a disenfranchising theory. His tackling of the contradictory role of the revolutionary bourgeoisie in the liberation struggles of underdeveloped countries, and his prioritizing of revolutionary theory over its practice were radically different revolutionary theories to any hitherto advanced in Africa, though his emphasis on unique, local analyses was taken literally in the sense that his pronouncements, whilst echoing around ‘isolated’ left regimes such as the Cuban, found little reverberation in Africa itself.