No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky by Basil Davidson

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Inventory changes are uploaded every 4 hours. An invaluable resource for the study both of the region and of African liberation struggles as a whole, this edition features a new preface by Cape Verde's first president, Aristides Pereira, and a new foreword by Cabral himself.The displayed in-store availability is maintained as accurately as possible. The book provides one of the earliest accounts of the assassination of the PAIGC's founder, Amilcar Cabral, and documents the movement's remarkable success in recovering from the death of its leader and in eventually attaining independence.

Less well known than the struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the liberation war waged by the PAIGC, as Davidson shows, easily ranks alongside those conflicts as an example of an African independence movement triumphing against overwhelming odds. The result, No Fist is Big Enough to Hide the Sky, still stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

ndependence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) archives to provide a detailed and rigorous analysis of the conflict. A leading authority on Portuguese Africa who witnessed many of these events first-hand, Davidson draws on his own extensive experience in the country as well as the African Party for the I.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky: The Liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verdeīasil Davidson ranks as one of the most remarkable Africanist historians of his generation.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky by Basil Davidson