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The anti-colonial leader killed 50 years ago (20th January) was a poet, influenced by Marxism and led the nationalist movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands. Ant贸nio Tom谩s, Jos茅 Lingna Nafaf茅 and New Generation Thinker Alexandra Reza join Rana Mitter to explore his life, thinking and legacy.

Jos茅 Lingna Nafaf茅 is Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Lusophone Studies at the University of Bristol. His work concentrates on the Black Atlantic abolitionist movement in the 17th century and the Lusophone Atlantic African diaspora.

Alex Reza is a writer and lecturer in comparative literatures and cultures working in French, Portuguese and English at the University of Bristol. She is also a 麻豆社 Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

Ant贸nio Tom谩s is the author of several publications in Portuguese and English, namely Am铆lcar Cabral, the Life of a Reluctant Nationalist (2021) and In the skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda (2022). He is currently an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Architecture, at the University of Johannesburg.

Producer: Ruth Watts

You might be interested in other Free Thinking discussions exploring Black History gathered into a collection on the programme website and all available to listen on 麻豆社 Sounds and to download as Arts and Ideas podcasts /programmes/p08t2qbp

They include a conversation about the writing of Aim茅 C茅saire and the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture /programmes/m000nmxf

A discussion of Frantz Fanon /programmes/m000tdtn