Amilcar Cabral I The Eco Tote Bag

A creation by artist Joy Hanoun

Material: 80% organic ring-spun and combed cotton, 20% recycled polyester

Weight: 300 G/M²

THE AFRICAN ANTI-COLONIAL STRATEGIST

AMíLCAR CABRAL 1924-1973 GUINEA-BISSAU

An agronomist by training, Amílcar Cabral was a founding member and incorruptible leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), created in 1956. Mobilizing his people with a revolutionary theory based on cultural resistance, Cabral was invited to the Tricontinental Conference in Havana in January 1966 to share his experience of guerrilla warfare with other liberation movements. An intellectual, diplomat, and military strategist, he was convinced that African unity must be built through struggle. Calling on African elites to renounce their privileges and show solidarity with the people by committing "class suicide," and urging African revolutionaries to be wary of the "cancer of treason," Amílcar Cabral was assassinated on January 20, 1973, in Conakry.

A creation by artist Joy Hanoun