One of the most serious errors, if not the most serious error, committed by colonial powers in Africa, may have been to ignore or underestimate the cultural strength of African peoples.
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice. - Amilcar Cabral
No matter how hot the water from your well, it will not cook your rice.
- Amilcar Cabral
Tell no lies' claim no easy victories - Amilcar Cabral
Tell no lies' claim no easy victories
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance o… - Amilcar Cabral
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance o…
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, t… - Amilcar Cabral
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, t…
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture - Amilcar Cabral
National liberation is necessarily an act of culture
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality. - Amilcar Cabral
We must walk rapidly but not run. We must not be opportunists, nor allow our enthusiasms to make us lose the vision of concrete reality.
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history. - Amilcar Cabral
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited… - Amilcar Cabral
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may never more be exploited…
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it. - Amilcar Cabral
We are not going to eliminate imperialism by shouting insults at it.
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