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

ISBN-13: 9781783605644 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str.

Basil Davidson

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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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Foreword by Zachariah Mampilly Author's Note to the 1981 Edition Preface by Aristides Pereira Foreword by Amilcar Cabral 1. Why? 2. How? With Whom? 3. Under What Precise Conditions? 4. By What Political Principles and Organization? 5. By What Military Methods? 6. Involving What Obligations? 7. Towards What Future? 8. With What Wider Meaning? 9. Carrying Through: 1968–72 10. Meeting the Bitterest Loss: 1973 11. The End of Colonial Rule 12. Building and Rebuilding Note on Further Reading in English