P. CHABAL. Amilcar Cabrai. Revolutionary Leadership and People's War, London. Cambridge University Press. 1983. XIII - 273 p. More than a decade ago, the life of the founder of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC), A. Cabral, was cut short. However, to this day, his example and ideas have a huge impact on the revolutionary liberation movement that unfolded on the African continent. Speaking at an international symposium held in Praia, the capital of the Cape Verde Republic, in January 1983, the representative of the African National Congress, B. Magubane, said that the oppressed people of South Africa, "its freedom fighters "draw great inspiration from the life and works of Comrade Amilkar Cabral." 1 A message from the People's Organization of South-West Africa, read at the symposium, emphasized that Cabral "was not just a politician, a nationalist patriot. He was an internationalist, an ardent boreas against imperialism. " 2But not all participants in the symposium shared this view. In the speeches of a number of Western scholars (R. Chilcote, I. Wallerstein, J. Ziegler, etc.), attempts were made to interpret Cabral's ideological legacy in such a way that its revolutionary content was questioned. The work of the English historian P. Chabal on Amilcar Cabral also adjoins this bourgeois-liberal trend. In the early stages, A. Cabral, a native of the middle strata of colonial society, acted as a typical representative of Zelenomyssk nationalism, taking an active part in the literary movement "Cabo Verdianidad". Its members, the author emphasizes, "focused exclusive attention on their Zelenomyss origin, considering themselves more European than African" (p.34). Cabral's departure to study in Portugal in 1945 marked the beginning of a new stage in the formation of his political views. In Lisbon, he threw off the shackles of "insular" provincialism. According to Chabal, "the end of the Second World War, the declaration of ind ... Read more