13/09/2024
📣Celebrating 100 Years of Amílcar Cabral
Today, 12 September 2024, marks the centenary of the great revolutionary Amílcar Cabral, the father of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, (PAIGC 2023). We can learn many lessons from Cabral - one of those lessons being how he together with his comrades, thought about political education, and the role of education in liberating the masses of our people.
"Whether in Cape Verde or anywhere else in the world, education is the fundamental basis that underpins the work of the emancipation of every human being and the conscientisation of mankind1, not in relation to individual or class needs or conveniences, but in relation to the environment in which he lives, to the needs of the community, and to the problems of the humanity in general. … Today, education aims at the full realisation of man, without distinguishing race or origin, as a conscious and intelligent, useful, and progressive being, integrated into the world and his (geographic, economic, and social) environment, without any sort of submission. For this and because of this, the issue of education cannot be treated separately from the socioeconomic question.– Amílcar Cabral, 1951
Throughout this week we will share educational materials that highlight the importance work Cabral led, how his legacy lives on through the young people in struggle against capitalism and imperialism today.
To begin, we encourage you to read the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research dossier titled, 'The PAIGC's Political Education for Liberation in Guinea Bissau, 1963 - 74': https://thetricontinental.org/studies-1-national-liberation-paigc-education/
Long live Amílcar Cabral!
International Peoples' Assembly
