No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, 1963-74 - Brossura

Davidson, Basil

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ISBN 10: 1783605642 ISBN 13: 9781783605644

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2017

Riassunto

Basil Davidson ranks as one of the most remarkable Africanist historians of his generation. A leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first-hand, Davidson draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. The result, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky, still stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
 
Less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the PAIGC, as Davidson shows, easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds. The book provides one of the earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC’s founder, Amilcar Cabral, and documents the movement’s remarkable success in recovering from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence. An invaluable resource for the study both of the region and of African liberation struggles as a whole, this edition features a new preface by Cape Verde’s first president, Aristides Pereira, and a new foreword by Cabral himself.
 

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L'autore:

Basil Davidson (1914–2010) worked as a journalist for the Times (UK), New Statesman, and other publications and served in the Second World War as an intelligence officer in Nazi-occupied Europe. His other books include The African Genius and The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State.
 

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• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1783605642
• ISBN 13: 9781783605644
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 187