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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — The Portuguese Empire Falls Last in The Decolonization of Africa, 1945–1994.
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