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New Expanded Edition edited; AMILCAR CABRAL (1924-1973) was a Pan-African freedom fighter and anti-imperialist theorist. He was a deep-thinking revolutionary who applied the principles of decolonization as a dialectic task, and in so doing became one of the world's most influential and effective theoreticians of anti-imperialist struggle. Cabral and his fellow Pan-African movement leaders catalysed and fortified a militant wave of liberation struggles beginning in Angola, moving through Cabral's homelands of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde, and culminating in Mozambique. He translated abstract theories into agile praxis and in under just ten years steered the liberation of three-quarters of the countryside of Guinea Bissau from Portuguese colonial domination. In this new, expanded edition we have access to Cabral's warm and humorous informal address to the Africa Information Service, and we revisit several of the principal speeches Cabral delivered during visits to the United States in the final years before his assassination in 1973.