"one of Africa's most profound revolutionaries...His occupation of so many subject positions - student, diplomat, organic intellectual, poet, agronomist, general secretary, revolutionary, and so forth - gave rise to a critical discourse and praxis that performatively puts into question the limits of white, armchair critical theory."
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Dan Wood, "Imbrications of Coloniality: An Introduction to Cabralist Critical Theory in Relation to Contemporary Struggles" in Resistance and Decolonization (2016)
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