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

Davidson, Basil

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786990660 ISBN 13 : 9781786990662

Editeur : Zed Books Ltd, 2017

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Biographie de l'auteur :

Basil Davidson ranks as one of the most remarkable Africanist historians of his generation. Born in Bristol in 1914, he worked as a journalist for The Times, New Statesman and others, as well as serving in the Second World War as an intelligence officer in Nazi-occupied Europe. After the war, he went on to become a leading authority on Portuguese Africa, and was one of the first scholars to emphasise the pre-colonial achievements of African civilizations, as well the damaging effects wreaked on the continent by colonialism. He was also a passionate advocate for contemporary anti-colonial struggles, and witnessed many of these struggles first hand. Among his many notable books are The African Genius (1969) and The Black Man's Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State (1992). He died in 2010. 

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Zed Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786990660
• ISBN 13: 9781786990662
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 208