Essays on Amilcar Cabral and Samora Machel | 
pickCabral was a political thinker and relative to a president of #GuineaBissau who sought peaceful separation from the country‘s colonizer, Portugal. The first essay describes his writings and attempt at peace, which didn‘t succeed although the country gained its independence after his death. It‘s a good brief history of the political strife of Guinea Bissau. The second essay is about the attempts to adopt Marxism-Leninism in Africa, and ⬇️
Texreader especially in #Mozambique. The essay felt like the author was praising this political system (for which I almost abandoned it being so antithetical to my own beliefs, but I tried to be open minded), even as he described how it failed everywhere it was tried. I was surprised then by the last paragraph in which the author concluded he could not support Marxism-Leninism. This is a very brief overview of its demise in Mozambique. #readingafrica2022 2y
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Librarybelle Great review! 2y
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