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Assassination of Amílcar Cabral (1973)

On the Decolonization of Africa map as “Amílcar Cabral”

20 Jan 1973 — Africa’s most original revolutionary thinker — agronomist and strategist of the Guinean war — is assassinated in Conakry months before victory. “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.” Remember him.

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Chapter
Portuguese Colonial War (chapter 8 of Decolonization of Africa)
Atlas
The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
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Map showing Assassination of Amílcar Cabral (1973), site of memory in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994
SITE OF MEMORY · THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICA, 1945–1994

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