Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde

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African liberation movement historiography
African political movements
anticolonial theory
Cabo Verde
Cape Verde Islands
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Decolonization
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Global 1960s
Independence from Portugal
language policy Africa
Lusophone Africa
non-governmental organisation support
PAIGC
postcolonial memory studies
Quasi-states
revolutionary solidarity networks
Sao Tome and Principe

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  • ISBN 9781032069814
  • Weight: 760g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Dec 2025
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde was shaped by a multiplicity of interactions and connections. Because of the intimate association between the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC – Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) and Amílcar Cabral’s leadership, the existing scholarship has been discussing the fight led by the liberation movement and its Secretary-General’s role within a single analytical framework.

While much has been written, most studies fail to break the many historiographical silences still existing around the subject. Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde intends to evince a multiplicity of analytical itineraries through which Cabral’s figure can contribute to understand the rise to statehood of both territories and the construction of memory of the anti-colonial struggle.

Víctor Barros is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (IHC – NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST). His main research interest is Portuguese colonialism, decolonsation, transnational networks of anticolonial solidarity and the construction of memory of the Portuguese empire in Africa.

Aurora Almada e Santos is Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Sciences and Humanities and the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (IHC – NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST). Her main research interest is Portuguese decolonisation, namely the transnational dimension of the struggle for the independence of the Portuguese African colonies.