Amilcar Cabral: Revolutions in Colonial Africa and abroad

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Amilcar Cabral: Revolutions in Colonial Africa and abroad

Amilcar Cabral: Revolutions in Colonial Africa and abroad

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Where was Amílcar Cabral from?

Guinea-Bissau/

Cape Verde Islands

Ghana

Nigeria

Kenya

Answer explanation

Amilcar Lopes Cabral- Born September 12, 1924, in Bafatá (Guinea-Bissau)

Father: Juvenal Antonio Lopes de Costa Cabral- a Teacher from a well off family (wrote a memoir of himself about the conditions living in Cape Verde and the decay of his families estates. This impacted Cabral’s consciousness as a political agent for his people;

Mother: Iva Pinhel Évora- was a shop owner (a Seamstress)

Parents from Santiago, an island in the offshore Cape Verde archipelago.

Siblings: Half-Brother Luis Cabral (Elected 1st President of Guinea-Bissau) his authoritarian single-party regime was repressive and the country was plagued with food shortages.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Where did Cabral attend College?

United States

Brazil

Portugal

Spain

None of the Above

Answer explanation

Secured a scholarship to study in Lisbon, Portugal at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (1945-1952)

Cabral chose Agronomy as his field of study. (Agricultural Engineering)

Goal was to formulate an understanding of how he could help his people in Cape Verde through his education (at the expense of the Portuguese Colonials).

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Amilcar Cabral worked for the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Services in Guinea-Bissau.

TRUE

FALSE

Answer explanation

In 1952, Landed a contract from the Department of Agricultural and Forestry Services in Guinea-Bissau

In 1953 and 1954, Cabral conducted an agricultural survey or census of the Guinea-Bissau

Allow him to travel and network across the country.

Allowed him to establish the vital contacts needed for a grassroots revolt against colonialism.

He was able to navigate throughout the land freely and under the masquerading as a person who was simply conducting work for the Portuguese.

Obtained a greater understanding of what colonial exploitation meant for the people collectively.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Was the goal of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) to both liberate and unify the countries of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau?

TRUE

FALSE

Answer explanation

In 1956 while in Bissau: Cabral, Aristides Pereira, Julio de Almeida, Elisee Turpin, Fernando Fortes, and Luiz Cabral (Amilcar’s brother) founded the Partido Africano de Independencia de Guine e Cabo Verde (PAIGC).

The Goal of the PAIGC was to both liberate and unify the countries of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.

August 1959- a dock workers’ strike at Pidjiguiti resulted in the massacre of 50 protesters. Authorities blamed the PAIGC.

In September 1959 it was decided that a non-violent resistance would not work.

They were forced to leave the country but not before they mobilized the people.

Séku Touré and the Republic of Guine (Conakry) (independent in 1958) aided Cabral and his armed forces by allowing them to use his country as a base for operation. (African Collectivism/Unionism- Nkrumah)

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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Cabral choose _______ as his field of study.

Political Science

Astrology

Agronomy

Astronomy

None of the Above

Answer explanation

Secured a scholarship to study in Lisbon, Portugal at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia (1945-1952)

Cabral chose Agronomy as his field of study. (Agricultural Engineering)

Goal was to formulate an understanding of how he could help his people in Cape Verde through his education (at the expense of the Portuguese Colonials).

Notably, as an Agronomist, Cabral was equipped with the knowledge to reverse the famine, the barren vegetation and overall living conditions in Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau which occurred during the 1940s and beyond.

This knowledge help Cabral lead his people to more sustainable and ecological ways of life. while at the same time he taught them to fight the Portuguese Colonialists on all fronts. 

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

According to Cabral, what are the two (2) ways that culture can be used as a tool?

Compassion

Liberation

Submission

Dominance

None of the Above

Answer explanation

Culture as a tool for Dominance

Psychological Violence

Suppression of Traditional African customs

Concessions for Petite Bourgeois African Class

Growth in Neo-Colonial ideologies

Demagogic Politics

Prevents the expansion of independent geopolitical thought

Culture as a tool for Liberation

Awaken the African’s mind from Mental Slavery

Free the African People from Social Death

Form a new sense of life for newly liberated people

Separate the African from any economic dependency of European Aid.

Methods: Literature, Art, Music, Propaganda, Communal Collectivism

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Cabral wanted to establish a ________ ________ that would unify the oppressed under one front to overthrow Portuguese Colonialism.

National Government

National Education System

National Language

National Identity

Answer explanation

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“Doing” Culture as a Political Act

Cabral wanted to establish a National Identity that would unify the oppressed under one front to overthrow Portuguese Colonialism.

To do Culture in the name of Liberation requires one to acknowledge the reality of their oppressed condition living under Colonialism.

(THINK AFRICA FROM AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN REALITY)

Revolutionary Democracy: Derived from a commitment of the collective to acted as a cohesive unionized whole to shift the pendulum of power in their favor.

Diplomatic association with the African Union

Cabral and the Dialectic of Materialism and Socio-economic conditions

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